How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

The Minister for Health says older people and healthcare workers will be prioritised in the national rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine. Speaking to the media on Sunday, Minister Greg Hunt said, “The medical expert advice is that health workers and the elderly are the top of… priorities.” He said the government has two vaccine contracts... Read More

Now we have access to PCR tests (known as RT-PCR, or reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, tests) and rapid antigen tests to detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. So which test should you use? And what’s the difference? Read More

You don’t have to read very far into the Aged Care Royal Commission’s interim report to get a clear sense of why our nation has sadly failed in the care of older Australians. In the first and second paragraphs of the report’s foreword an issue that has fed our tolerance for mistreatment and abuse in... Read More