How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

As of mid-May this year, only 14% of all of Japan’s coronavirus deaths had occured in aged care homes. This compares to many western countries, where care home deaths make up well over 40% of coronavirus deaths. In Australia as at yesterday it was 69%, a number highlighted by Peter Rozen QC at the Royal Commission into Aged Care and Safety (and reported by HelloCare in August) as one of the highest in the world. Read More

CHSP providers have already been given full flexibility to allocate up to 100% of their existing funds in 2019-20 and 2020-21 between the different service types they deliver so that emerging client needs can be met.   These provisions have now been expanded to allow providers to re-allocate funding across the Aged Care Planning Regions (ACPRs)... Read More

  The federal government is coming under increasing pressure for not releasing the review it commissioned into COVID-19 outbreaks at St Basil’s and Epping Gardens during Victoria’s  devastating second wave.  The review, which was conducted by Professor Lyn Gilbert and Adjunct Professor Alan Lilly, who also conducted the review of Newmarch house, was handed to... Read More