Australia’s Aged Care Minister Anika Wells has defended the new star rating system for nursing homes against criticism it should be pulled down, accusing the coalition of trying to undermine transparency and drag the sector back into darkness. The opposition says the information being used for the rating tool is out-of-date and has caused distress…
COVID-19 Aged Care Deaths Not Being Scrutinised: MP
The federal government should be scrutinised more over the rising number of COVID-19 deaths in aged care, an independent MP says. More than 3000 Australians have died with COVID-19 in aged care facilities this year, which is almost triple the number of deaths in the first two years of the pandemic. The aged care death…
Aged Care Workers Sceptical Over Governments Reforms: Survey
Aged care workers have said they are sceptical the federal government’s ambitious planned reforms to the sector can be achieved, a survey suggests. About half of the 1100 workers canvassed shortly after the May election said they planned to leave the sector within the next three years, according to the report published on Monday by…
Promised Aged Care Wage Rise Could Be Spanned Out
Pay rises given to aged care workers could be “stepped out” over a period of time, Aged Care Minister Anika Wells says. Wells was speaking from Brisbane during a visit by the Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles, where she said there was modelling on how much a wage increase would cost, but it was “hypothetical”…
Australian Government Pledges to Fund Pay Rise For Aged Care Workers
The government will push for a significant and meaningful pay rise for workers in the aged care sector in a pitch to the industrial umpire. Details of the submission are set to be revealed on Monday as Labor pledges to fund any pay increase determined by the Fair Work Commission. The commission is considering whether…
Australian Government’s Pay Rise Bid Marks Aged Care Employee Day
A star-rating system for Australia’s aged care facilities is expected to be in place by the end of the year, the federal minister for the portfolio says. It is part of the government’s push to ensure more transparency and accountability in the sector following the findings of the aged care royal commission. The system will…
Government Should Open Immigration Channels for the Aged Care Industry: Report
Australia’s shortage of aged care workers has doubled to 35,000 in less than a year, according to a new report, which recommends that the government attracts overseas immigrants into the industry. The ‘Duty of care: Aged Care Sector in Crisis’ report released by The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) on June 28 shows that government inaction and…
Government-Subsidised Mental Health Services Underutilised in Australian Aged Care: Study
June 23, 2022
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Less than three percent of Australians with mental health conditions living in residential aged care facilities access government-subsidised mental health services, an analysis by South Australian researchers has found. The lead author of the study and psychology registrar and epidemiologist from Flinders University, Dr. Monica Cations, said aged care residents are four times more likely to…
University Launches Virtual Reality Headsets to Improve Quality of Life in Aged Care
May 24, 2022
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The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is launching a virtual reality (VR) toolkit titled Transforming Aged Care with Virtual Reality (TACWVR) on May 25, aimed at aged care seniors to give them a “better quality of life.” “We integrated VR technologies into three Australian aged care facilities to find ways of better socially connecting residents…
Australian Aged Care Workers Take Fight for Higher Wages to Fair work Commission
Aged care workers have taken their fight for higher wages to the Fair Work Commission as inflation continues to bite around Australia. The Health Services Union, representing staff from personal care workers to catering and cleaning, is calling for a 25 percent wage increase for staff in the sector. “It is certainly a political issue…
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