How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

Two more Newmarch House staff have tested positive for COVID-19, raising the total to 61 cases (24 staff and 37 residents). NSW Health has deployed two infection control nurses to the facility to review its procedures. “We’ve clearly seen transmission that on the surface looks like there’s been breaches in infection control amongst particularly the staff,” NSW chief... Read More

  The government is moving too slowly to respond to the royal commission’s recommendations, and the shadow minister for aged care is concerned Australia could miss its chance for major reform. Speaking at Leading Aged Services Australia’s (LASA’s) Ten Days of Congress, Julie Collins MP, Shadow Minister for Ageing and Seniors, said she was “really... Read More

  COVID-19 infection numbers are starting to fall in Victorian aged care homes, and restrictions are slowly easing. But geriatrician Jesse Zanker is concerned about how residents will cope with the altered reality they will have to face during their first meal served back in the dining room. “Residents have lost a lot of people they... Read More