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.
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New model as self-managed care plummets
The number of home care service outlets offering self-managed care has dropped by 40 per cent since last year.
Young guns set to shake up aged care sector
Representatives from the home and community care sector will join a national council of youth ambassadors.
Stigma compounds difficulties for people living with dementia
There are calls to incorporate dementia design as a standard as the world’s largest dementia study reveals a ‘dangerous’ amount of stigma.
Home care queue drops but 120,000 still waiting
There’s been a drop in the number of people waiting for their assigned home care package for the first time since 2017.
Bureaucrat faces grilling over people with disability in aged care
The government has faced a grilling about why it allows young people with disabilities to languish in aged care facilities.
Almost 40 per cent of home care budgets eaten up by fees
Providers are taking almost half of clients’ home care expenditure to pay for administration and case management.
Lack of NDIS housing literacy means participants miss out
Gaps in the understanding of homelessness by NDIS service providers are preventing people accessing the housing support they may be entitled to.
Figures show decrease in rate of dementia hospitalisations
New statistics have been released showing falling hospitalisation rates for people with dementia and conservative prescribing of anti-dementia medication.
Home care regulation deficient, royal commission hears
Serious questions about the adequacy of home care regulation have been raised at the Aged Care Royal Commission.
Resistance training offers promise for prevention of sarcopenia
Uniting AgeWell has partnered with Victoria University to investigate therapeutic interventions for sarcopenia, including the benefits of resistance training.
Royal Commissioners moved by carer’s account
The Aged Care Royal Commissioners have praised the “extraordinary” resilience of a witness who spoke about the challenges of being a carer.
Providers put on alert about home care scam
Home care providers have been put on alert about a telephone scam targeting home care package recipients.
Commission hears of resident’s decline after failing to get home care
The royal commission has heard how an elderly woman who had to enter residential care after being told she would have a 12 month wait for home care died of infected ulcers three months later.
