Bupa ignored staff cut warnings
Aged care provider Bupa cut nursing staff despite being warned doing so would lead to deaths and injuries.
Aged Care
Delirium due to ‘acute dehydration’
Wife tells inquiry of immediate decline of eminent psychology professor who had helped millions.
Like ‘a slab of meat in abattoir’
A deceased nursing home resident’s royal commission submission tells of his experience in care.
Almost 200 nursing homes on the brink
Nursing homes across Australia are operating at an unacceptably high risk of insolvency, analysis reveals.
Lack of volunteers exposes gaps
The diminishing number of volunteers in rural and remote areas will expose entrenched gaps in aged-care services.
Be ashamed, Australia
The royal commission’s early findings are damning, highlighting a grim and shameful state of affairs.
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.
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.
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