The Ageing Nursing Workforce: A Global Challenge

On 13 March, in the online Sydney Morning Herald, I came across an article that cannot be allowed to pass without comment. It was written to amuse, and originally featured in the UK’s Telegraph. It was headlined “It’s time to repeal Obamawear,” and described how 55-year-old Obama, previously seen “as a paragon of understated cool... Read More

The Governor-General was handed the report of the aged care royal commission on Friday. It will be made public in the coming week. Overlaying its considerations has been Australia’s 909 deaths from COVID-19, more than two-thirds of them (685) people in aged care facilities. It has to be recognised that COVID accounts for an extremely small share of deaths in Australia, and even deaths of senior citizens. 127,082 Australians aged 70 and over died in 2019. To date 851 in that age group have died of COVID. Some good might come from these sad deaths if they prompted us to think about where we are likely to die. Read More

Frank Price and a number of aged care CEOs approached Richard Colbeck late last year and proposed a range of short and long-term solutions to aged care’s current staffing woes. While Mr Colbeck failed to respond, the options discussed have the ability to alleviate industry-wide immediately. Read More