On 16 September 2018, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a Royal Commission into the Aged Care Sector to examine the quality of care provided to both senior Australians and young Australians with ...

Michael Woods is Professor of Health Economics at the UTS Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation. He is Policy Advisor to the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative (UARC) and Chairs the ...

Hal Swerissen is a non Executive Director of the Murray PHN. You don’t have to look to far to find examples of poor quality residential aged care. Most recently, residents have too often been ...

Between April and June, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission issued noncompliance decisions for more than 40 services, including residential facilities and home care programs. Among them was ...

The move against Della Dale Aged Care is an uncommon intervention from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission and its most severe form of regulatory action. At a site assessment, residents were ...

The Department of Health and Aged Care and the Australian Digital Health Agency have released a set of minimum software requirement standards for clinical information systems and electronic medication ...

Barely edible food and wound pictures depicting residents’ private parts. These are just some of the latest fails uncovered by the aged care watchdog in homes around Australia. SEARCH FOR A SERVICE ...