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• · Culture Awareness
Aged care sector’s major representatives announce intention to form new industry body
In a bid to change in line with the necessary reform to the aged care sector, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA), peak body for for-profit providers, and Aged and Community Services Australia...

• Health and Wellbeing
• · Leadership
LASA Excellence in Age Services Award winners announced for 2021
The award winners of the Leading Aged Services Australia’s (LASA) National Excellence in Age Services Awards were announced last Friday, recognising the outstanding achievements and contributions by...

• Finance
• · Government
Peak bodies call for Age Pension changes to allow pensioners to fill workforce shortages
The National, State and Territory Chambers of Commerce have joined together to call on the Federal Treasurer to allow greater workforce participation from Age Pension recipients so they can earn more...

• Culture Awareness
• · Leadership
Aged care providers recognised at ACSA awards for navigating a difficult year
The peak body for not-for-profit aged care providers, Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA), announced the winners of the national ACSA Aged Care Awards on Tuesday, recognising the hard work...

• Government
Industry calls on in home care and community workforce to get vaccinated as deadline looms
Aged care peak bodies are encouraging those who work in the in home care and community services sector to get their COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible, as the deadline for the first dose is less...

• Culture Awareness
• · Education & Training
COVID-19 outbreaks exposed shortfalls in aged care, finds review
Recommendations from a review into COVID-19 outbreaks in aged care facilities aim to fix “shortcomings and systemic weaknesses” in the aged care system that were exposed by the COVID-19...

• Health and Wellbeing
• · Products
Electronic drug register provides peace of mind in aged care
SPONSORED STORY – Victorian aged care provider Nagambie Aged Care has streamlined its services utilising an electronic controlled drug register, which has reduced the administrative burden on...

• Health and Wellbeing
Asking ‘Are you really ok?’ can make a difference for older Australians
With thousands of people around Australia in lockdown, quarantine or self-isolating to stay safe during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people feeling isolated or stressed is extremely...

• Government
Anonymous reporting tool exposes failures in aged care
A new whistleblower reporting tool established by United Workers Union (UWU) has had over 2,000 aged care workers expose safety risks and staffing issues in aged care facilities across Australia in...

• Government
Government data shows increase in care staff, sector highlights resourcing constraints
The Federal Government has released the findings of its 2020 Aged Care Workforce Census Report, collected between December 2020 – January 2021, which shows a 38 percent increase in direct care...

• Government
Only half of aged care workers vaccinated as mandatory vaccine deadline approaches
The Federal Government has released national vaccination rates of aged care workers that show that only half of the workforce has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine even though the...

• Caring & Carers
Aged care workforce shortage projected over next decade
The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has released a report expressing that there is a dire shortage of aged care workers in the country which needs to be immediately rectified...

• Culture Awareness
The sector thanks their aged care heroes
Ahead of Aged Care Employee Day (ACED) on 7 August, the industry is showing its appreciation and love for its dedicated workforce.

• Finance
Aged care workers experiencing rental crisis exacerbated by COVID-19
COVID-19 essential workers, such as the aged care workforce, are facing a rental affordability crisis with most workers in major cities putting a large portion of their weekly pay towards their rent.

• Culture Awareness
New programs to combat the sexual assault and abuse of older people
With 50 incidences of unlawful sexual contact of an older resident in an aged care facility every week in Australia, new education programs combatting abuse and sexual assault have been launched in an...