Royal Commission isn’t highlight “new problems”, hear from Leanne Emerson, Dementia Australia

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

New figures released today reveal more than 104,000 older Australians are stilling waiting for the home care package they have been approved for. These shocking figures follow the Aged Care Royal Commission’s interim report which called the long waiting times older Australians faced for home care ‘neglect’. The new data confirms the Morrison Government’s response... Read More

When an agency worker turns up to work at an aged care facility they haven’t worked in before, everything will be new to them: the other staff, the residents, the layout of the building, where things are kept, and routines they need to follow.  Every new facility an agency staff member works in is like... Read More