How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

Older Australian’s are renowned for their resilience in times of crisis and it appears as though a large part of this attitude comes down to wishful thinking. Despite the well-known risk that COVID-19 poses to older people, the latest polling results published by The Essential Report shows that 74% of Australians over the age of... Read More

  Aged care staff have aired their frustrations on HelloCare’s pages over the government’s bungled handling of the aged care worker retention bonus. Earlier this week, the federal government announced a third retention bonus for aged care workers, but HelloCare has received hundreds, if not thousands, of comments expressing frustrations over the government’s poor delivery of... Read More

Expansion of COVID-19 testing criteria To further protect vulnerable Australians, the Government has agreed to an AHPPC recommendation to expand the current coronavirus testing criteria to include testing of aged and residential care workers with fever or acute respiratory infection. The testing criteria is set out in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Communicable Disease Network Australia... Read More