Whitehorse City Council voted to exit the services from July at an October meeting that was closed to the public.
Online training for elderly visitors to a nursing home shows very little compassion as we enter the pandemic’s fourth year.
The Productivity Commission has locked horns with the stance of a landmark inquiry into the embattled aged care sector,over a recommendation to limit the infiltration of the gig economy in the workforce in the midst of a staffing crisis.
The new aged care star ratings reveal widespread shortfalls in the quality and amount of care. Use our searchable database to check out how homes ranked nationwide.
Read our stories below on how the disaster unfolded,and the aftermath of what remains Australia’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak.
Wells said the government wanted a three-star rating to be “the floor for people,not the ceiling ... we want everybody to move to four or five in the years to come”.
The Melbourne nursing home where 50 residents died of COVID-19 has not paid rent in years and qualified for millions in JobKeeper as it battles to stay afloat.
Aged care operators at risk of being named and shamed under a new federal government star rating system will be able to adjust their assessments before they are revealed to the public.
A Commonwealth submission to the Fair Work Commission called for aged care workers’ 15 per cent pay rise to be paid over 18 months from July next year.
Managers at St Basil’s,where 50 aged care residents died in Australia’s deadliest COVID outbreak,have lost an appeal to avoid giving evidence to the coroner.
A federal pledge to fund a pay rise for aged care workers has gained 59 per cent support from Australians ahead of the likely $1.8 billion annual cost of the move.