Aged Care

Royal commissionNation

Aged-care fightback: ‘we did have a plan’

Brendan Murphy has blasted the aged care royal commission over claims the Morrison government had no COVID-19 plan for aged care.

Stephen Lunn

Aged Care Royal CommissionNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 2.A poster remains outside of Newmarch House in Kingswood, Sydney,Thursday,July 2, 2020. The families of those who have died from coronavirus outbreak at the western Sydney aged care home are taking legal action against the nursing home.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Newmarch House boss to face grilling

The royal commission will examine the impact of COVID-19 on nursing homes, but won’t look at the unfolding crisis in Victoria.

Stephen Lunn

Unseen documentary footageThe Times

David Hockney, Los Angeles, 9th March 2016© David HockneyPhoto Credit: Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima

Painting, sex keep me young: Hockney, 83

Painter David Hockney’s secret to feeling young is to have an invigorating artistic project and ‘a few nights of nice sex’.

Jack Malvern

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 02: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews walks into a press conference on August 02, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a 'State of Disaster' and increased restrictions for Victoria. The Premier announced that 671 new cases of COVID were detected, 73 connected to outbreaks, 598 under investigation and seven people died overnight. Stage 3 restrictions will be reintroduced to regional Victoria. An 8pm to 5am curfew will be introduced starting today. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

PM ‘did not learn from the earlier aged-care outbreak’

Scott Morrison has rejected Labor’s claims to ‘stop passing the buck’ and take the blame for the coronavirus outbreak in aged-care homes in Melbourne.

Dennis Shanahan

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

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

Aged care crisisNation

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

COVID JOBSNation

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

SYDNEY OUTBREAKS FIRST FOCUSNation

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

Crisis centrePolitics

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

MelbournePolitics

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

St Basil’sNation

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

commentaryPolitics

Pandemic brings failing system into full view

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

Stephen Lunn

exclusiveNation

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

exclusiveNation

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

Politics

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

exclusiveNation

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

seniorsNation

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

Nation

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

pandemicNation

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

exclusiveNation

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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