New research has given policymakers and aged care providers first-hand insights about how to uphold dignity and meet the ...

The Australian Capital Territory is set to welcome its first intergenerational retirement and aged care community, to be ...

Australia’s care economy has begun a decade-long transformation with the launch of the $129 million Care Economy Cooperative ...

A new survey report has gauged the digital maturity of the aged and community care sector in Australia, establishing its benchmark for further improvement to cater to evolving regulatory demands. The ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety found that the aged care industry was characterised by a lack of innovation and was not built around the people it was supposed to help.

Ageism is an architecture issue, not an attitude issue, and the Act’s success is dependent on whether policymakers are ...

La Trobe University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Aged care financing is a vexed problem for the Australian government. It is already underfunded for the quality the community ...

Hal Swerissen is the Deputy Chair of the Bendigo Kangan Institute. In a country like Australia, we all expect that when we get old, we’ll be able to rely on a robust aged care system. But aged care ...

When Peter O'Shannessy returned to his home from the hospital in January, he was unable to speak or eat after extensive surgery for throat cancer. The 74-year-old was assessed for aged care support ...

A critical shortage of residential aged care beds is leaving patients stranded in hospital — in one case, for more than a year. Queensland's premier and health minister are calling on the federal ...