Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced yesterday that his government will hold a royal commission into the aged care sector. The decision is a desperate attempt to win support from older ...

Australia’s aged care is transforming, driven by new laws, rising home care demand and increasingly empowered clients.

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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 ...

The Australian Department of Health and Aged Care has released a five-year strategy to deliver aged care reforms. In the Aged Care Data and Digital Strategy, the government envisions an aged care ...

A class action lawsuit has been filed naming a major aged care provider, alleging a poor quality of care for residents that one person labelled “soul-destroying”. Echo Law filed the lawsuit against ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Australian government should immediately act on the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety to improve rights protections for older people, Human Rights Watch ...

Echo Law filed the lawsuit against the major healthcare provider, alleging it failed to provide the quality of care promised to residents and that it was required to deliver under law. The lawsuit ...