The average amount of unspent home care funds held by providers has increased by around $1000 in the last year to just under $7000 per client.
Conferences & Events
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Silver Rainbow: LGBTI Aged Care Awareness In-Person Training
Jul 30 2019 – Jun 1 2020 all-day
Standard 8 Organisational Governance Master Classes
Sep 19 – Oct 28 all-day
Home Care Seminar- for new staff and Providers
Oct 24 all-day
8th International Conference on Ageing and Spirituality
Oct 27 – Oct 30 all-day
LASA National Congress 2019
Oct 27 – Oct 29 all-day
Latest News
Inquiry hears from unions, provider peak about worker issues
Aged care workers raise concerns daily about physical violence, low pay, staff shortages and challenges securing permanent work, the royal commission hears.
Aged care providers honoured for business excellence
Providers in three states have all recently won awards for their business or marketing initiatives.
Doctors develop new standards for aged care
The professional organisation for Australia’s general practitioners is seeking feedback on a draft set of voluntary standards for residential aged care facilities to improve the primary care of residents.
Report calls for end to chemical restraint of residents
A new report on the use of chemical restraint in residential aged care facilities is calling on the government to ban the practice and mandate training for staff on dementia and alternative methods.
International students, Pacific Islanders plug aged care workforce gap
Enterprise bargaining has been an ‘abject failure’ in terms of improving wages and conditions in the home care sector, the Royal Commssion has been told.
Home care workers suffering abuse, injuries
Almost one in two home care workers have suffered a workplace injury, more than half have been abused and almost three quarters have been in situations where they have felt unsafe in a client’s home.
Audit shows unpaid carers in grip of chronic anxiety
A survey of carers has found that almost one in four are living with chronic anxiety, and warns the situation will get worse without adequate supports.
Pollaers calls out government over lack of action on workforce
The government needs to act on a number of workforce recommendations before the sector can improve employee attraction and retention, the workforce taskforce chair tells the royal commission.
Inquiry moves its focus to workforce issues
Reconceptualising residential aged care from an institution to a home has inadvertently led to today’s less clinically skilled and oriented workforce, an expert tells the aged care royal commission.
Aged care staff report understaffing as top issue
Four out of 10 residential aged care workers are planning to leave the sector within five years because they are overworked, stressed and underpaid, a national worker survey shows.
Peak backs star-ratings for aged care staffing levels
Sector peak ACSA has backed a star-rating approach to evaluating staffing levels like the one at the centre of a new report that found more than half of Australian aged care residents are in facilities with too few staff.
