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Older Aussies left behind as NDIS is extended to New Zealand citizens
Drastic new changes will allow more people living in Australia to access the National Disability Insurance Scheme, but older Australians are still missing out on support.

• Caring & Carers
• · Government
Aged care safety set to improve through coming trials
Between independent reviews and co-design sessions over the past two years, the Quality Standards have adjusted to reflect public expectations for aged care.

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• · Finance
Home for the homeless: $32,000 taxpayer savings per resident
Construction of the facility was partly funded by the HammondCare Foundation with larger donors including The Ian Potter Foundation, City of Sydney and the Snow Foundation. The Darlinghurst Road site...

• Caring & Carers
• · Housing
$80 million dollar aged care development in Canberra’s near future

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• · Dementia
Pilot program brings rescue dogs to people living with dementia
For the very fur-st time in Australia, older Aussies at HammondCare’s Horsley, Wahroonga and Darlinghurst homes saw a group of greyhounds wagging their tails and twitching their ears in...

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• · Caring & Carers
How to make a safer home for an older person
Nowadays, the idea of getting “put into a home” isn’t really ideal for older people living in Australia. It’s understandable, given that drastic changes to someone’s living situation isn’t...

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Standard protocol to call police to aged care homes: says expert
Police forces are called to aged care facilities “more commonly” than NSW police commissioner discloses, according to an aged care expert.

• Caring & Carers
• · Health and Wellbeing
The kind heart behind HammondCare’s lolly cart
Over the last few months, Mr Gallagher turned the garage of his Fern Bay home into a production line to make handmade lolly trolleys — his very own sweet fleet.

• Caring & Carers
• · Health and Wellbeing
National Volunteers Week kicks off today
Today, we raise a glass and toast the five million people living in Australia today who volunteer to help their community out, with two-thirds returning in-person to keep the cogs turning in...

• Caring & Carers
• · Home & Community
Concetta’s inspiring work: Italy to Queensland
National Volunteer Week kicks off from May 15 – 21, but for Concetta, a Regis Lutwyche resident, a week is hardly enough time to celebrate her inspiring journey of selflessness and dedication to...

• Caring & Carers
• · Leadership
International Nurses Day, May 12
International Nurses Day, kicks off on May 12, held annually on the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. This year, the International Council of Nurses have announced that the theme is Our...

• Caring & Carers
• · Finance
The aged care boost older Australians are celebrating
Aged care nurses are set to receive a 15 percent pay increase from July, in an aim to keep facilities afloat and provide 24/7 care to older Australians.

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• · Finance
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme cuts costs on medicine for older Australians
As the Australian Federal Budget (2023 – 2024) is set to be delivered on May 9, many older Australians will be looking forward to the proposed change to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS),...

• Caring & Carers
• · Government
National medicine safety project for aged care receives $1.5m in funding
The Pharmacists Actioning Rational use of Medicines in Aged Care (PHARMA-Care) quality monitoring project has received $1.5m dollars in funding to develop, test and assess the costs of a nationally...

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• · Health and Wellbeing
1 in 7 older Australians felt mental health worsen during pandemic
Australia’s peak organisation for older Australians, Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia, has released new research showing that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to worsening mental health among the...