Food quality for older people

  An aged care facility in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, has been sanctioned until early April after failing all of the eight aged care quality standards. Not-for-profit provider South Cross Care’s Tenison Swansea Residential Aged Care has been sanctioned until 3 April 2020 for failing elements of all eight of the new person-centred quality... Read More

Nursing students at the University of the Sunshine Coast are being given the opportunity to live next door to the campus in a nursing home, and spend time socialising with residents. The students will be given heavily subsidised accommodation and in return they will spend time with the residents at Cooinda Aged Care, sitting and... Read More

Late last Friday afternoon, on the eve of a public holiday, the government quietly issued a policy backflip that will strip millions of dollars from the pockets of hard-working aged care staff who have been on the front line, protecting older Australians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The government revealed the aged care worker Retention Bonus will... Read More