Fun Day at the Footy for Freedom Residents

  With a total of 19 residents deaths and 71 staff members and residents testing positive for COVID-19, the situation that unfolded at Anglicare’s Newmarch House has become a case study in what can happen when infection control goes wrong in an Australian aged care home. The recent Four Corners exposé entitled ‘Like the Plague’... Read More

A report on the impacts of the new Aged Care Quality Standards has highlighted additional pressure the Standards have put on aged care workers and has demanded further assessment of the program in the future. Read More

  For those of us not working on the front line in aged care, it can be hard to imagine what a care worker does on a day-to-day basis. What are the challenges they face, the joys they experience and the sadnesses and frustrations that often come with the job? We asked our readers to... Read More