Aged Care

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 26: Federal Sports Minister Richard Colbeck looks on as FIFA announce the hosts to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup at the FFA Offices on June 26, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

Aged-care staffing shortage flagged

The Morrison government was warned nine months ago to develop protocols for situations where there was a risk of imminent collapse in the provision of aged care services.

Olivia Caisley

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Photo of Spiros Vasilakis at his home in Keilor Park on Tuesday 28 July 2020. His mother Maria died of Covid last Thursday at St BasilÃs Senior Home in Fawkner. Photo Luis Enrique Ascui

St Basil’s let Mum down

Spiros Vasilakis says he trusted St Basil’s to care for his beloved mum Maria but it failed to save her from the killer coronavirus

TESSA AKERMAN

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A health official wearing a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suit collects a swab sample from a resident (not pictured) to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus. Picture: AFP

Desperately seeking people to risk lives to save others

Recruitment agencies across Australia are desperately seeking to fill thousands of jobs in aged-care centres and hospitals on the COVID-19 frontline.

Caroline Overington

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 28: A resident of Epping Gardens Aged Care Facility is taken away in a ambulance on July 28, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Victoria has recorded 532 new cases of coronavirus and six more deaths, yesterday making it the worst day of the pandemic. Metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell shire remain in lockdown due to the rise in COVID-19 cases through community transmissions, with people permitted to leave home only for exercise, work, to buy essential items, or to access childcare and healthcare and individuals are required Face coverings or be subject to a $200 fine. Lockdown measures are in place until August 19. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

Victoria aged care crisis not immediate inquiry fodder

Victoria’s response to the second wave outbreak won’t be part of August Royal Commission hearings on coronavirus and aged care.

Stephen Lunn

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 01: Australian Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck at a press conference alongside Prime Minister Scott Morrison on May 01, 2020 at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. The ACT became the first Australian state or territory to be free of any known COVID-19 cases on Thursday, following the recovery of the last person to contract the coronavirus in Canberra. Despite the local elimination of the virus, ACT health authorities have confirmed current restrictions on travel, gatherings and social distancing will remain in place, as will expanding testing to asymptomatic patients and those with mild symptons to ensure there are no further outbreaks. (Photo by Rohan Thomson/Getty Images)

United front to handle state aged-care crisis

The deepening aged care crisis will continue with high infection rates.

John Ferguson

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24/07/20 Paramedics leave with an elderly patient from St Basil's nursing home in Fawkner. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Home, alone, and in aged-care hell

Victoria’s nursing homes fighting devastating virus outbreak, with eight residents dead and infection numbers soaring.

Stephen Lunn and Rachel Baxendale

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Photo of Christine Golding, whose 84yo mother is in St Basils Homes for the Aged in Fawkner, at her home in Brighton on Friday 24 July 2020. Photo Luis Enrique Ascui

‘I don’t know if my mother is alive’

After repeated calls to a Melbourne nursing home, Christine Golding did not even know if her mother was alive.

Rachel Baxendale

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Pandemic brings failing system into full view

COVID-19 has pressure-tested the nursing home system in Victoria, and it is failing.

Stephen Lunn

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Menarock LIFE Aged Care in Essendon, is part of an outbreak of coronavirus infections at multiple aged care homes across Melbourne. A resident leaves in a patient transport ambulance. Picture : Ian Currie

Fears 40 aged-care residents will die

Authorities are anticipating that 40 of the 110 COVID-positive nursing home residents in Victoria won’t survive the second wave outbreak.

Stephen Lunn

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Portrait of figure skater Maxine Gray, 75, photographed at Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. Picture by Sean Davey

Golden years for our optimistic oldies

Older Australians are overwhelmingly positive about their lives.

Stephen Lunn

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos JULY 08, 2020: The Prime MInister, Scott Morrison during a press conference at Parliamnet House. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Taylor

Boost funds extra 6100 in-home places

Scott Morrison says older Australians will have ‘greater choices’ in how they live after funding more than 6000 new in-home aged-care places.

Greg Brown

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12/06/20 Maria Sampey wants to be able to visit her mum Vittoria, 98, in her aged care facility, but despite the voluntary code saying nursing homes should consider daily visits, she is restricted to two visits a week for one hour at a time. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Elderly in lockdown: the backlash

Complaints about nursing homes surged to ‘unprecedented’ volumes in the past three months.

Stephen Lunn

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22/05/2020. Carer Liebe Shannon visiting Frank Holland-Stabback 99, at his home in Sandrigham, Melbourne. Picture: David Geraghty / The Australian.

Exercised, but veteran missing mates

‘(The lockdown has) made a big difference to my life. Being compliant has been hard,’ says 99-year-old Frank Holland-Stabback.

Stephen Lunn

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Care death warning: there will be others

Oakden aged-care whistleblower warns: ‘We don’t know how many Ann Maries are out there’.

David Penberthy

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Some sectors of the aged care workforce could miss out on a top-up payment from the Federal Government claims a health sector union.

Code agreed on aged care visits

A sector stoush that was creating confusion among care residents and their families has been resolved.

Stephen Lunn

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Photo of Anthony Bowe, 51, whose mother Patricia Shea, 76, tested positive for the virus could not see her today after a private pathway was blocked off. On Friday 08/05./2020 (Daily Telegraph-Flavio Brancaleone)

Police probe aged-care neglect claims

Senior NSW detectives are being asked to investigate allegations of neglect by staff at Newmarch House in western Sydney.

KIERAN GAIR

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Patricia Shea (76) who is COVID-19 positive gives the thumbs up to her son who is outside the fence from the window of her accomodation at Newmarch House residential care in Caddens, Sydney . 3rd May, 2020. Picture by Damian Shaw

Families race to get loved ones out

Desperate families are scrambling to rescue their loved ones from a nursing home at the centre of a fatal coronavirus outbreak.

Kieran Gair

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Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians Senator Richard Colbeck holding a Press Conference on the Aged Care Royal Commission Interim Report at Parliament House in Canberra.

Homes slam door on PM’s order

Aged care providers will rebuff Scott Morrison’s demand to open up nursing homes to daily visits from residents’ loved ones.

Stephen Lunn

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison looks on during a press conference in the carpark of Esida Lodge Aged Care in Brisbane, Thursday, January 31, 2019. Morrison relocated the press conference to the facility due to Labor protestors at a prior site. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

Homes ordered to lift bans on visitors

Scott Morrison has told nursing homes to allow visitors to see their loved ones unless there is a serious medical reason.

Stephen Lunn

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A general view of Anglicares Newmarch House in Western Sydney, Friday, April 17, 2020. The aged care facility has recorded 30 cases of Covid-19 after a staff member worked for six days without knowing she had the virus. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

Aged-care resident fifth to die of virus

A fifth resident of a western Sydney nursing home has died after being infected with COVID-19.

Imogen Reid and Stephen Lunn

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(L to R) Best friends, and residents, Joan Somerville and Joan Henderson of Allambie Heights Village aged care facility share a joke at their knitting group, which has since had to cancel its teacher due to COVID-19. Residents are adapting to changes set out by a government directive to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The elderly face an increased risk and vulnerability to the consequences of COVID-19. Friday 20 March 2020. Picture: Nikki Short

Protecting elderly priority for most vulnerable

Avoiding heartbreak inside a nursing home has taken on a new life as aged-carers step up hygiene practices in the corona era.

Brad Norington

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Leading Age Services Australia (the largest national representative organisation of aged care providers) CEO Sean Rooney at Parliament House, Canberra, updating on the COVID-19 restrictions on aged care homes. Picture Gary Ramage

PM’s $445m aid ‘falls short’

Scott Morrison has announced a $445m emergency boost to support the financially beleaguered aged-care sector.

Stephen Lunn

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Visitor limits win sector approval

The aged-care sector has applauded the ‘two visitors at one time, per day’ rule to help protect the elderly from the coronavirus

Rosie Lewis

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Controls to limit nursing home risks

Strict rules limiting aged-care residents to two visitors at one time each day are being proposed.

Rosie Lewis and Stephen Lunn

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Aged care stocks slammed in Tuesday trading

Estia Health suspended its guidance, prompting a wider sell off that engulfed rival Regis Healthcare.

Ben Wilmot

Aged carePolitics

COTA Chief Executive, Ian Yates speaking at a doorstop Launching COTA's plan for fixing AustraliaÕs aged care system at Parliament House in Canberra.

‘Don’t cut off elderly’

Ian Yates says measures have to be flexible, proportionate and precautionary, with no blanket rules.

Rosie Lewis

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Minister for Youth and Sport Richard Colbeck at a doorstop at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Plea to nursing staff: don’t abandon aged

Nursing staff should continue to turn up to work in aged-care homes, minister Richard Colbeck says.

Stephen Lunn

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 05: A general view of Dorothy Henderson Lodge in the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Park on March 05, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. NSW Health authorities have confirmed an aged care worker at the nursing home has been diagnosed with coronavirus. The woman had contact with 13 residents at the lodge, two who then subsequently reported respiratory symptoms. One of them, a 95-year-old woman, has since died. It is not known if that death was related to coronavirus. The care worked is the third person to be infected via human-to-human transmission in Australia, with all three cases in NSW. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

New cases revealed in aged-care outbreak

It is likely more residents of a Sydney aged-care facility will be diagnosed with the coronavirus, Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant says.

Natasha Robinson and ADESHOLA ORE

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Bupa hit by $72m loss

Bupa says it is investing tens of millions of dollars after its aged care division sank to a $72m loss.

Jared Lynch

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AUS NEWS Rosa Colanero and her 88yr old mother Adina Colanero in her Prospect Adelaide home. Adina is in receipt of a Level 4 Home Care package.Image/Russell Millard

‘Googling’s not the go when elderly need a hand’

Funding to maintain the elderly’s quality of life in their neighbourhood is critical to mental wellbeing, says Multicultural Aged Care CEO Rosa Colenaro.

Stephen Lunn

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