Australia will need at least half a million additional aged care workers by 2050. Current efforts to find them are just not ...

Aged-care workers are on the rise, with the number of people entering the caring economy surging as Australia’s elderly ...

Hundreds of thousands of Australian workers are getting a pay increase as a result of a recent Fair Work Commission decision.

Exclusive: Elderly people are being put up in hotels by overburdened hospitals and are being chased by debt collectors, in ...

The Australian Government has taken another significant step along the path of generational aged care reform, with the new Aged Care Rules now ...

Not enough staff and a lack of exercise are being blamed for the shocking number of aged care residents having falls, with one NSW facility reporting six in 10 of its residents suffered a fall – some ...

An inspection of Chilton Meadows, a care home for elderly people with dementia in Stowmarket, Suffolk, in March 2021, found a number of residents with "distressed behaviours" including one using a ...

The Australian government is investing A$312.6 million (around $200 million) over four years to improve the ICT systems in the aged care sector. It is part of the A$3.9 billion ($2.5 billion) ...

A South Australian government aged care home, which looks after 23 people with dementia or complex disabilities, ...

Respect, support and opportunities for feedback are vital to ensure Australians experience quality aged care, say Flinders University experts. The research, recently published in the journal ...

An Australian Productivity Commission report, released last month, shows that a growing number of elderly people across Australia are left waiting more than nine months to receive vital aged care ...

Click here to download an Easy-to-Read version of the report At that stage he couldn’t walk, only shuffle, he was very, very depressed, just crying all the time. And he couldn’t swallow… He would say, ...