Pensioners are going without access to aged care services
A Cabarita women has to wait minimum 12 months before she can access in-home care assistance
Aged Care
Aged care advocates rejoice as PM announces royal commission
AGED care advocates have praised Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s call for a royal commission into aged care.
Calls for Royal Commission sitting on Mid North Coast
As an aged care capital the Mid North Coast deserves a special sitting.
Rotten apples in aged care but MP praises Page facilities
PAGE MP Kevin Hogan claims government has been looking into the aged care sector since last year, after Prime Minister Morrison announced a royal commission
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New in aged care spaces ease pressure on ageing population
SYLVIA Hyland has the Christmas decorations up in her room at Crowley aged-care facility in Ballina.
Nurse accused of killing elderly residents to apply for bail
A FORMER nurse alleged to have murdered two elderly female residents at Ballina’s St Andrews Nursing Home indicated she will apply for bail later this month.
Ageing gays go back into closet to avoid discrimination
AGEING lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people fear discrimination in aged care so much some “go back into the closet”, an SCU study has found.
A caring nature
WHEN Wooli resident Julie Knight saw a job ad in the local post office 14 years ago, she had no idea how much it would change her life.
Visitors build connection for those in aged care
IT IS the simple things that get Julie Taylor and Peggy Garland excited about seeing each other once a week as part of the New School of Arts volunteer scheme.
Pensioners sign up to ask govt to give subsidy back
DOZENS of Ipswich senior citizens lined up to sign a petition to restore the dementia and severe behaviour supplement that was cut on August 1.
Over-65s increasingly using aged care services
MORE older Australians are using aged care services after their 65th birthday, with new figures showing a one-third jump in service use.
Flu virus hits care facilities
NSW Health says there has been an influenza outbreak in Mid North Coast aged care facilities.
We aren’t idiots: Gran slams child care shake-up
A SUNSHINE Coast grandmother has slammed a suggestion that grandparents need a TAFE course to qualify for child care payments.
Double homicide at Ballina nursing home
HOMICIDE Squad detectives have confirmed the deaths of two women at Ballina’s St Andrews Nursing Home last month are being treated as a double murder.
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