Ageism influences how people’s health concerns are interpreted. Symptoms can be dismissed as normal ageing, and older people ...

OneCare chief executive officer Pete Williams says he will write to the Federal Aged Care and Seniors Minister, Sam Rae, asking him to pause funding for specific programs which he says are difficult ...

What workers experience in rest homes and other aged care facilities has been revealed in a new report based on 80 in-depth interviews - but the Seniors Minister says the confronting accounts “paint a ...

Many aged care workers across Australia are receiving a long overdue boost to their pay packets, following the success of the Health Services Union's landmark aged care work value case. From Wednesday ...

From October 1, aged care homes will need to meet both of their legislated care minutes targets, total care minutes and registered nurse minutes, to receive 3 stars or more for their staffing rating.

At the same time, the deeming rates have been changed. While there has been much publicity about their effect on the age pension, very little has been written about their effect on aged care fees. And ...

An aged care provider has been found not guilty of placing residents at risk by not properly training its staff before a deadly COVID-19 outbreak.

Labor's landmark aged care reforms have fallen short of the vision for the sector laid out in the 2021 royal commission and may fail to deliver on their promise to contain taxpayers' costs, according ...

Between April and June, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission issued noncompliance decisions for more than 40 services, including residential facilities and home care programs. Among them was ...