About 1,000 people are waiting in Queensland public hospitals for more appropriate care, such as a place in aged care, with ...

Police officers pepper sprayed an 87-year-old man in a nursing home in south-west Sydney after he was seen brandishing "a ...

Families of stranded elderly Queenslanders left languishing in hospitals are being forced to look over the border for beds in ...

Thousands of older Australians remain stuck in hospital. Hazel Home Care says faster access to Support at Home packages could ...

Police have used pepper spray to subdue an elderly dementia patient who allegedly wielded a large metal ornament while ...

The 100-bed facility will be constructed on a site where Stolen Generations were taken to against the will of their parents.

On Sunday, Aged Care Minister Anika Wells would only say she was working to fulfil Labor’s election promise to have around-the-clock nursing care in every facility “as soon as I can possibly muster”.

It also agreed all aged-care policy should start from the perspective that Australians are supported to stay in their own homes for as long as they possibly can. The taskforce, announced by Aged Care ...

Chris Toye also works as a research consultant in the Centre for Nursing Research at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, a hospital recognised as a centre for nursing ...

The staffing shortage means too many people who should be in residential aged care are stuck in hospital, with no safe alternative accommodation, it says. The situation is worse in the ­regions, where ...

A nursing home in Toowoomba in southern Queensland has been sanctioned for a serious breaches in its healthcare and safety measures. The Shalom Toowoomba Nursing Home has been warned by the federal ...