Australia needs to shift away from a rationing model to a needs-based system of care for the elderly, similar to the way general health care works.READ MORE
The Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC, released the Quarterly Report to disability ministers Q1...
National disability insurance scheme providers used unauthorised restraints on clients – such as sedating or strapping down a person, or depriving them...
Flinders University’s ongoing research endeavours in the aged care sector are small but crucial steps towards transforming the way we care for older...
Australia's aged care crisis has worsened since the royal commission into the troubled sector with staffing a major issue, according to a prominent union.
Aged care providers are calling on the federal government to create a special visa to bring workers from overseas to fill widespread shortages in the...
Australia will allow 2000 overseas nurses and doctors to enter the country for work under a plan being finalised by the Commonwealth and states to ease a...
Disability advocates say NSW should have held off on easing COVID-19 restrictions until vaccination rates for those with a disability caught up with the...
If the findings of the aged care royal commission had not put off baby boomers considering nursing home care, it seems the pandemic may have done the...
The head of nursing at Melbourne University has warned that the pandemic is leaving Victorian nursing staff too overworked and burnt out to contemplate...
A former disability carer has been fined $15,000 for breaching workplace health and safety laws over an incident that left a man with horrific injuries...
The federal government has lifted working caps for international students in "essential sectors" during the pandemic, but some students and advocates say...
Nurses have been the backbone of the pandemic, but now Victoria’s healthcare system is battling a serious shortage of them, as staff are re-deployed to...
A Gold Coast woman has been sentenced to nearly two years imprisonment for fraudulently obtaining more than $43,000 in disability support funding, the...
The Australian Government is providing COVID-19 rapid antigen testing (RAT) to residential aged care facilities in Greater Sydney, to further protect...
More than 40 per cent of aged care staff across Australia are yet to have their first COVID-19 vaccination despite Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying...
Australia' shortage of direct aged care workers will balloon to 110,000 within the next decade and 400,000 by 2050 unless urgent action is taken to boost...
For the 13.5 million Australians currently in lockdown 16 months into a pandemic, it's easy to grumble and complain and focus on the injustices while...
