How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

Australian woman Nicole Sadilek, flew home from the United States to be with her dying mother, only to be denied special exemption. Nicole and her seventeen-year-old daughter Paige, had applied for the exemption prior to leaving from San Francisco last week. They hoped to spend two or three days confined in a Sydney hotel, and... Read More

As the entire planet finds itself in the midst of a battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, aged care workers stand as the last line of defence for the most vulnerable members of society. Soaring death tolls have put the well being of elderly people at the forefront of people’s minds in recent weeks – and... Read More

The first groups to receive the jab will be quarantine and border workers, frontline health-care workers, aged-care and disability-care workers, and aged-care and disability-care residents. For aged-care residents, their age, health and living situation makes them especially susceptible to becoming very sick or dying from COVID-19. So it’s right they are receiving priority access to a vaccine. Read More