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Tina WilliamsCommentsPremium
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Volunteers can provide crucial companionship in aged care

It is vital that we draw attention to an essential service urgently needed by those living in aged care: companionship.

Tina Williams

Taking actionCommentsPremium‘Walkouts only way to make real change’: Aged-care strikes

Thousands of frustrated aged-care workers are going out on one-hour strikes across WA, South Australia and Queensland today in ongoing protests over poor work conditions.

Troy de Ruyter

‘Heart of gold’CommentsPremiumTouching tributes for grandma who died waiting for ambulance

A close friend of 80-year-old Georgina Wild, who tragically died on Sunday after waiting two and a half hours for an ambulance, has remembered the grandmother as having ‘a heart of gold’.

Brianna Dugan

Pointing the fingerCommentsPremiumAged-care provider blames lack of funding ahead of strikes

WA’s biggest privately-owned aged care provider has blamed Federal Government funding for why it can’t give staff pay rises ahead of strike action from workers today.

Annabel Hennessy

‘Unprecedented action’PremiumThousands of aged-care workers to strike in two weeks time

Thousands of aged-care workers in WA, Queensland and South Australia will walk off the job in two weeks time as part of a national strike over pay and conditions.

Annabel Hennessy

Dire problemsCommentsPremium‘Horrifying’ claims emerge of elderly left unfed and soiled

There have been hundreds of reports of aged-care clients being left unfed, for extended periods in soiled pads and with untreated wounds as a result of understaffing at facilities, according to the union.

Annabel Hennessy

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Kate PhillipsCommentsPremium
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Action, not election promises needed to fix aged care

With an ageing population - a category a majority of politicians fall into - if we think we are facing an aged-care crisis now, just wait and see what happens in ten years if we fail to act.

Kate Phillips

‘This is tough work’VideoCommentsBlazing Albo lashes Libs over aged care sector in ‘crisis’

Anthony Albanese has lashed the Libs over aged care, saying nursing home residents were ‘starving’ and being left in soiled clothes and claiming the Government doesn’t see the issue as a vote winner.

Annabel Hennessy

Poll positionCommentsPremiumAged care set to be centre of Federal election battle

Fixing the aged-care sector is a key part of the election campaign, and looming industrial action doesn’t bode well for the Government.

Annabel Hennessy

‘restore integrity’CommentsPremiumLabor vows to stop ‘rip off’ aged care services with fee cap

Anthony Albanese has vowed to stop ‘rorting’ of aged care home packages by imposing a cap on how much users can be slugged for management fees.

Bethany Hiatt

‘Unforgivable neglect’PremiumHistory of scandal: Timeline of Australia’s aged-care shame

Anthony Albanese has vowed to fix the aged-care sector as the Labor leader ramped up his pre-election pitch to voters. Here is a history of the scandal-plagued sector’s biggest controversies.

Five-point planLabor promises $2.5 billion overhaul of aged-care sector

Labor has promised to overhaul the aged-care sector in its pre-election Budget pitch with a suite of measures that will cost in excess of $2.5 billion.

Lanai Scarr

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John McCallumCommentsPremium
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The clock is ticking on fixing Australia’s aged-care issues

Is it really twelve months since the 148 recommendations of the royal commission into aged care were publicly released? Well, yes it is, and where are we now?

John McCallum

Funding BoostPremiumAged care boost for Donnybrook with new funding secured

Two aged care facilities in Donnybrook are set for a face-lift as part of a funding boost worth nearly $3 million.

Jackson Barrett

Aged-Care CrisisCommentsPremiumLack of funding spells disaster for aged-care industry

The head of an aged care facility in the Lower South West has warned a lack of funding in the industry could lead to critical worker shortages and less vacancies.

Ben Loughran

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Maze awaitsCommentsPremium
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Trim the jargon as you start discussing life’s tough choices

Warnings that home care providers will become debt collectors for Canberra are just another reminder of the regulatory morass awaiting Australians in our twilight years.

Neale Prior

Rules changeCommentsPremiumProviders turn ‘debt collectors’ in aged care shake-up

One provider says they will effectively turn the sector into a debt collector agent for the Federal Government and could limit access to urgent support for clients.

Nick Bruining

Covid jabCommentsPremiumWhy 1300 aged care workers face ban within weeks

More than a thousand aged care workers could lose their jobs over coming weeks if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

Charlotte Elton

shocking figuresCommentsPremiumAlarming surge in elder abuse cases during COVID

Cases of elder abuse have surged during the pandemic, with a 99 per cent increase in calls to the national elder abuse phone line up to April this year.

Sarah Ison

Lodge handoverPremiumHall & Prior to take over Hocart Lodge management

Harvey-based aged care facility Hocart Lodge will be taken over by private provider Hall and Prior within days after a deal was struck between the two care providers.

Jacinta Cantatore

Shocking failuresVideoCommentsPremiumWA families issued apology over death notice delays

Devastated relatives of three elderly people who died while in the care of the Office of the Public Advocate have received an "unreserved apology" for days-long delays in notification of their deaths.

Caitlyn Rintoul

‘Important next step’CommentsPremiumDoctors get green light to give vaccinations in homes

A new program will allow doctors to deliver vaccinations to the elderly, frail or immobile people at disability or aged residential care facilities.

Sarah Ison

Different focusCommentsPremiumLabor not considering aged care levy ‘at the moment’

Federal Labor supports a ‘significant’ wage increase for aged care workers but is not considering introducing a levy to pay for the jump ‘at the moment’.

Josh Zimmerman

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A Lack of respectCommentsPremium
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How can we treat aged care workers like this?

We need to care for those who look after our elderly. Instead, we pay them just $22 an hour for work that is physically and emotionally draining. Is it any wonder we can’t get them to stay in the job?

Annabel Hennessy

Annabel Hennessy