How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

The death toll of the coronavirus outbreak at Newmarch House in Western Sydney has now reached 16. This terribly sad news comes as the latest resident died Tuesday morning after testing positive to COVID-19.  Since the outbreak first began on April 13, there have been a total of 66 infections linked to the home, including... Read More

  The federal government has announced that an independent review has begun into COVID-19 outbreaks at Melbourne aged care homes, St Basil’s Home for the Aged and Heritage Care Epping Gardens. According to a Federal Health Department fact sheet, St Basil’s Homes for the Aged in Melbourne’s Fawkner has had 183 COVID-19 cases and 44... Read More

As Victoria goes into another circuit-breaker lockdown, and faces a possible third wave of a COVID outbreak, there are concerns for aged care residents in almost 30 homes who are still yet to receive a single vaccine dose. The news comes despite the fact that 655 residents died last year during the state’s devastating second wave. Read More