Fun Day at the Footy for Freedom Residents

  If a resident wishes to come to dinner in their night clothes, they are well within their rights to do so. However, a HelloCare reader is concerned that staff cuts at the aged care facility where they work are forcing busy care workers to make the decision on the resident’s behalf, because it saves... Read More

“We continue to see reviews conducted by academics and consultants with no hands-on experience of delivering aged care services, and the policies they put into place only work on paper because they lack real-life application,” says aged care expert Dr Rodney Jilek. Read More

An Australian Federal Police employee and his brother have pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges that stemmed from the shocking death of their mother. Shirley Thompson, 73, was admitted to the Blacktown Hospital in western Sydney in a severely malnourished and dehydrated state and then died a week later in the Palliative Care Unit in... Read More