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Financial pressure on aged care homes is getting worse: new report

  A survey by aged care accountants has revealed that more than half of the aged care facilities studied are operating at a loss. In the three months to September 2019, 51 per cent of aged care facilities recorded an operating loss before tax, according to the latest quarterly survey by accountants StewartBrown. For the... Read More

Blood Test For Dementia: New Test Can Detect Alzheimer’s Decades Before Symptoms Appear

A simple blood test may hold the key to an early dementia diagnosis, according to new research pioneered by Australian and Japanese scientists. In a world first, the test is expected to make an accurate diagnosis up to 30 years before symptoms appear. Published in the journal Nature, the research was 90 per cent accurate... Read More

What happens if aged care staff refuse to work in nursing homes with cases of coronavirus?

Over the weekend, Sydney recorded its third fatality from the coronavirus, after an 82-year-old former resident of an aged care facility passed away. One resident of the same facility, Baptist Care’s Dorothy Henderson Lodge, died last week from the virus and another two residents remain in hospital but are said to be in a stable... Read More
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