PM acts: ‘More aged care cash in weeks’
Scott Morrison calls for ‘new culture of respect for older Australians’ and vows extra funding for aged-care by Christmas.
Aged Care
Be ashamed, Australia
The royal commission’s early findings are damning, highlighting a grim and shameful state of affairs.
Australia grows harsher, cares less
Workers being ripped off and the elderly subjected to cruelty and neglect. Is Australia happy with that?
Report enough to make reader weep
It is difficult to imagine a worse indictment of Australia’s aged care system.
Aged care: sorry truth ‘diminishes’ our nation
‘Cruel and harmful’ aged care must be reformed, a royal commission has urged.
Pay rises despite business protests
Overtime and weekend rates for casual aged care and disability services workers will rise from next July.
Ban on chemical restraint sought
New government regulations should prohibit the use of chemical restraint in aged care facilities, a human rights group says.
Aged-care camera reveals abuse
A camera hidden in the room of a nursing home resident suffering from Parkinson’s disease has recorded ill-treatment by staff.
Royal Commissioner dies
Aged Care Royal Commission chair Richard Tracey QC has died after a short battle with cancer.
Aged care ‘hell’ for younger residents
Residential aged care was simply the wrong place for Catherine Roche’s husband after he suffered a stroke in his fifties.
Young waste away in aged care
Putting her daughter Sarah, 39, into aged care was wrenching for Lyn Brady, but not as upsetting as the two years that followed.
Japara profit slumps 30pc
Japara Healthcare says revenue is failing to keep up with ballooning expenses.
Elderly’s food spend ‘impossible’
Celebrated cook Maggie Beer has demanded action to improve the care of some of the most vulnerable Australians.
Inquiry call for aged home
The contractor who ran a nursing home which left 71 elderly residents homeless says “serious questions need answering”.
Camera ‘need in aged care’
Bruising, bed sores and foot infections prompted call from daughter of elderly man.
Tying up residents ‘doesn’t look nice’
Nursing home staff told to stop tying up residents because ‘it doesn’t look nice’ for vistors.
Home swipes resident’s medicine
The aged-care royal commission has been told of patient neglect by home residents.
Exodus amid aged care turmoil
Two executives at a leading aged-care provider have left the $600m company as the industry feels the royal commission strain.
Estia ups profit, cuts guidance
Estia has increased its first-half profit but downgraded its full-year guidance amid the ongoing aged care inquiry.
Blueprint for aged-care sector
Funding for high-care nursing home residents would be doubled under a plan being examined by the federal government.
The rise, fall and rise of retirees
Over the next decade the baby-boomer generation shifts wholly into retirement. Prepare for a massive shift in consumer and property markets and business.
Aged-care providers on notice
Aged-care providers have been warned by the royal commission into the sector not to stand in the way of staff giving evidence.
‘Fears for aged care’s future’
One commissioner said there’s a “rising torrent of concern” that aged care is faltering, as the Royal Commission begins.
GP exodus from aged care homes
Doctors have blamed falling numbers of GPs seeing patients in nursing homes on poorly trained nurses and low Medicare rebates.
Brawl over ‘doping’ of elderly
Tens of thousands of cases of abuse and neglect will be revealed at the aged-care royal commission when it opens this Friday.
Exercise may delay dementia
A hormone produced by exercise may slow the progress of Alzheimer’s disease and delay the onset of dementia, research suggests.
Public to have say on aged care
The Royal Commission into aged care has thrown open the doors to public submissions on the day before Christmas.
Aged care gets $550m boost
The PM will today unveil a $552.9m boost to aged care and the release of 10,000 high-level home-care packages.
‘You did nothing to help her’
A man has been jailed for leaving his 83-year-old mother to die in squalor while his de facto partner claimed Centrelink carer payments.
Nightmare that awaits us all
The night before my father was moved from hospital to a nursing home I prayed he would die before the morning.
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