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• Education & Training
• · Health and Wellbeing
Intergenerational storytelling project brings together residents and students
A digital storytelling project between a Queensland retirement village and a local school is bringing together residents and students to build connections and improve wellbeing among older people.

• Caring & Carers
Staff shortages in aged care have doubled in 12 months
The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has found that the aged care workforce crisis has doubled over the last year, with the worker shortfall increasing from 17,000 to 35,000.

• Finance
Financial sustainability of the aged care sector continues to decline
The latest report from StewartBrown, a chartered accountancy firm, has revealed that the aged care sector is continuing its downward trajectory of financial unsustainability, putting older Australians...

• Health and Wellbeing
• · Leadership
Older Australians faced with barriers to re-entering the workforce
Ageism, pension rules and scarce age-appropriate job opportunities have been identified as the main barriers for older Australians trying to return to the workforce.

• Education & Training
• · Leadership
Industry body releases new Workforce Planning Tool
The Aged Care Workforce Industry Council (ACWIC), an organisation working to improve the Australian aged care workforce, launched a new online tool yesterday designed for and by aged care providers to...

• Elder Abuse
• · Government
Recent data shows over 500 sexual assaults in aged care in three months
A recently released report from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) has found that 530 sexual assaults occurred in residential aged care facilities in the final quarter of last year.

• Finance
• · Health and Wellbeing
Homeownership key to feeling financially secure in retirement
A recent survey from National Seniors Australia has found that older Australians feel most financially secure in retirement if they are a homeowner, even more than those with high savings or...

• Advice
• · Finance
New study finds one in three retirees want to or have re-entered the workforce
National Seniors Australia, peak body for older Australians, has released research that found 20 percent of pensioners would consider returning to the workforce after retirement if Age Pension...

• Advice
• · Caring & Carers
Parkinson’s awareness front and centre this April
Thirty-seven Australians receive a Parkinson’s diagnosis every day. On World Parkinson’s Day, 11 April, and during Parkinson’s Awareness Month, the focus is on raising awareness...

• Culture Awareness
• · Health and Wellbeing
Half of older Victorians don’t trust they will receive quality care in nursing homes
The National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) has released a report that found many older Victorians do not have much faith that they will receive quality care and support in an aged care facility.

• Culture Awareness
One year on from the Aged Care Royal Commission’s Final Report
It has been a full year since the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety handed down its Final Report into the systemic issues plaguing the Australian aged care system.

• Government
Aged care peak bodies prepare themselves for unified new entity
Major aged care peak bodies are preparing themselves for the next steps in creating a new overarching aged care industry association that will better represent providers in the sector.

• Culture Awareness
New report showcases sector’s fight to keep older Australians safe during COVID-19
The Australian Aged Care Collaboration (AACC), a group of six aged care peak bodies, has released an Aged Care Situation Report highlighting the issues aged care providers and staff are facing to...

• Government
New $34 million aged care research centre announced at Flinders University
A $34 million Aged Care Centre for Growth and Translational Research was unveiled on Wednesday, with the three year initiative aiming to develop research and innovation that will bolster the aged care...

• Elder Abuse
• · Government
Landmark OPAN report reveals unacceptable aged care experiences over last year
A new report from the Older Person’s Advocacy Network (OPAN), the peak body for advocacy for older Australians, has unveiled the unacceptable and confronting aged care experiences older people...