How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

  The world has suddenly closed in on the residents of aged care facilities. In Australia, the prime minister has announced tight controls on who can visit and when, and social distancing and infection control measures mean the opportunity for physical and personal closeness is disappearing. Similar restrictions are in place in aged care homes... Read More

The Minister for Aged Care has used out-of-date data to make international comparisons with Australia’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis in aged care homes. In a parliamentary hearing in October last year after questioning from opposition home affairs spokeswoman, Kristina Keneally, Minister Richard Colbeck said New Zealand had experienced a similar rate of deaths in... 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