Put pensioners in jail and criminals in nursing home
Lights off at 8pm and showers once a week, live in a tiny room and pay $600 a week with no hope of getting out.
Aged Care
600 new jobs: builders, nurses, cleaners, cooks needed
WE’VE watched them take shape. Now, we can work at two major Hervey Bay aged care facilities.
Childcare centre bridges gap with aged care visits
WITH the ever-increasing segregation between young and elderly, Creative Garden Centenary Heights Early Learning Centre staff want to make a difference.
Illoura staff run ragged as residents wait for basic assistance
Some Illoura residents are waiting more than half an hour for basic care, a meeting has heard
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Our aged care’s in despair
AN AGED care campaigner is calling on council to use one of its own buildings as an aged care facility to address the shortage of nursing homes in Bargara.
Aged care crisis call
SENIOR citizens’ groups are warning of an aged care crisis in the Bundaberg region unless the Federal Government makes an urgent injection of funds.
Cash for caring
TWENTY-ONE organisations will share funding of more than $400,000 aimed at improving home and community care services for the aged and people with a disability.
Shock claims of aged abuse
TOOWOOMBA’S TriCare aged care nursing centre is under investigation after complaints of shocking treatment of some patients at the Curzon St facility.
Cash injection for aged care
NURSING home residents across the region are set to reap the benefits of more than half a million dollars in federal funding.
Donation helps aged care facility
EIGHT not-for-profit organisations in the Gladstone region will receive more than $308,000 from the QGC Sustainable Communities Fund.
Aged care ailing
A SIX-BEDROOM house designed by Sundale Garden Village as a model for a new way of delivering aged care has sat empty for the past two years.
‘Aged care crisis looms’
THE aged care system is “in a mess” with bed shortages and developers stalling on new nursing homes, the federal members for Wide Bay and Hinkler say.
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