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CARE
Landmark legislation to improve carers’ circumstances
2010-08-30 10:16:00 Voice Editorial Team
IN MAY of this year, landmark legislation was enacted in NSW Parliament which is set to bring about substantial improvements for carers around the state.
The Carers (Recognition) Act 2010 recognises the work and dedicat
YOU may have recently seen some promotional work by Fr Bob Maguire and John Safran, presenters of a weekly social and religious program on the ABC’s ‘youth’ radio station Triple J. Both are quite well known for their comedic outs
SYSTEMIC failures in the standard of care at nursing homes seem to continue unabated following the fall-out from last month’s expose in the Sunday Telegraph.
Two NSW nursing homes were sanctioned in the space of a week, with the A
READERS may have seen recent reports documenting shocking conditions in two Sydney aged care facilities, both owned by major players in the aged care industry.
The conditions were uncovered by Sunday Telegraph journalist Rosie Squires,
Productivity Commission inquiry into disability and care services
2010-05-28 17:14:00 Voice Editorial Team
THE Australian Government has requested that the Productivity Commission conduct an inquiry into a ‘long-term disability care and support scheme.’ The Productivity Commission invites submissions from the public to help it look at the d
MINISTER for Ageing Justine Elliot has all but said that high care bonds in nursing homes are on the Government’s agenda in a letter sent to a CPSA affiliate.
The Government is holding consultations around the country to seek Austr
WITH AUSTRALIAN Government reviews currently underway into both the aged care accreditation process and the residential aged care Complaints Investigation Scheme, a South Australian nursing home has been sanctioned for serious risks to the safety
THE NSW Government has followed in the successful steps of Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia by implementing the Companion Card Scheme for people with a disability.
MINISTER for Ageing Justine Elliot has refused to deny that the Australian Government will introduce bonds for high care nursing homes in this year’s budget.
Pressure to remove registered nurses from nursing homes
2009-03-27 14:06:00 Voice Editorial Team
CPSA is concerned about the nursing home provider lobby and their efforts to remove from legislation the clause that requires a Registered Nurse to be on duty in a nursing home at all times.
MINISTER FOR Ageing Justine Elliot came under fire just before Christmas 2008 for her announcement on the state of the country’s nursing homes for the last financial year.
Minister Elliot said that Australia’s nursing homes provide ‘world class c
DESPITE MANY private for-profit nursing homes crying poor in the recent past, commentators have listed nursing homes and the aged care sector as a safe bet for investment, according to research conducted by IBISWorld.
CARERS AUSTRALIA in partnership with the Commonwealth Bank’s Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFP) launched a major study into the financial well-being of carers in the community.
The CFP’s Women Carers Report examined the lifetime financial well
THE RUDD Government has introduced legislation to ensure greater protection of the 170,000 Australian nursing home residents by putting into play greater checks on aged care providers.
The Aged Care Amendment Bill 2008 looks to improve the scruti
NEGLIGENCE and under par services continue to dog aged care facilities this month.
The Patricia Gladwell Aged Care Home in Brunswick, Victoria, faces closure if improvements are not made in six months to clinical care and staff training.
RETIREMENT village legislation changes are set to give residents greater protection.
Under current legislation, people living in retirement villages can face huge exit fees, pay maintenance fees even after they have left the retirement village,
FEDERAL Ageing Minister Justine Elliot has come out swinging.
In the coming months, Commonwealth Nursing Officers will visit nursing homes to examine all relevant information about a resident’s care needs and consider the care plans that detail ho
SHORTLY after the Minister had publicised the fact that more than one in three of the nation’s 2870 nursing homes had over-claimed federal government funds in the nine months to 31 March, the Aged Care Association of Australia (the nursing home drama
THE Australian Government will require nursing home services to report any case of missing residents – a measure to further protect and enhance safety for residents, particularly those with a diagnosis of dementia.
100 is now the new 75: What does this mean for aged care?
2008-06-03 15:01:00 Voice Editorial Team
THERE’S NO doubt that Australians are living longer. Healthier lifestyles and improvements in medicine have contributed to Australia’s increasing longevity. By 2047, it is estimated that 2.7 million Australians will be over the age of 65.
PEOPLE with dementia are set to have improved access to support services in New South Wales as a result of $11.86 million in funding from the Federal and New South Wales State Government.
Nine new dementia day-care centres will be created throug
CARERS will be the focus of a Parliamentary Inquiry that will assess how to best address the needs of carers of people with a disability, chronic illness or who are elderly.
The ABS 2003 inquiry into carers found that there are 2.5 million carer
OLI STEELE sounds like a nice guy. He’s the brand manager for APHS.
APHS claims to “service 7,000 Aged Care beds in Queensland and undertake over 8,000 Medication Management Reviews annually” and its media release goes on to spruik the company
BELVEDERE (Italian for ‘beautiful view’), a 30-bed Melbourne nursing home has been ordered to close after a four-day audit by the Aged Care Standards Accreditation Agency (ACSAA) found that the ‘facility’ did not comply with 42 out of the 44 aged car
Do we really need an inquest when 5 old people die?
2007-07-27 11:55:00 Voice Editorial Team
Broughton Hall cover-up continues
STAFF of a Melbourne nursing home (where five elderly people died in a gastroenteritis outbreak,) did not have access to key infection control guidelines, an audit has found.
All’s well in aged care Except for the gastro and fire hazards
2007-06-29 11:39:00 Voice Editorial Team
131 nursing homes at fire risk
THE LIVES of residents in 131 nursing homes could be at risk because their facilities have not complied with federal fire safety regulations, says the Department of Health and Ageing.
Aged Care providers unperturbed but strapped for cash
Aged and Community Services Australia chief Greg Mundy recently said the country’s aged care sector was facing a looming crisis as the population rapidly ages but funding falls behind. Mr
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AGED CARE
Nursing home beds shortage
2007-05-07 11:08:00 AAP
NEW figures show there is still a serious shortage of aged care beds in Australia, Labor says.
Opposition spokeswoman for ageing Jan McLucas said federal Government figures for December 2006 showed a national shortfall of 2,735 beds.
NOTHING describes better the apparent shoddiness of care at Broughton Hall nursing home than the reports of the experience of the son of the fifth and latest resident to die. David Dunstan says he went to Broughton Hall on Sunday 14 March, to visit h
Disaster Incorporated How safe is a nursing home that hospitalises 70% of its residents?
2007-04-26 13:38:00 Voice Editorial Team
THE BROUGTHON Hall nursing home disaster is the most telling of all disasters that have rocked Australian nursing homes in recent years, not just because five people have died, but because it is the result of a massive failure in residential aged car
JUNE Gabriel and I represent CPSA at the Quality Aged Care Action Group that meets bi-monthly at the NSW Nurses’ Association. These meetings bring up lots of issues that are of concern to all who are ageing and may need a nursing home placement down
THE now former federal Minister for Ageing, former Senator Santo Santoro’s response to a Dorothy Dixer (26 February 2007) about aged care has an OK-it’s-fixed-now-no-more-whingeing-please! air about it:
Another day in Santo’s paradise Prime Minister declares himself aged care sceptic
2007-02-26 11:28:00 June Gabriel, CPSA Member
AS was to be expected, the aged care industry is pretty happy about the $1.5 billion increase in funding over five years. Should nursing home residents be happy, too?
Yes and no.
Yes, because the industry genuinely needed more money to run
CPSA MEMBERS will be dismayed to learn that nursing home bonds requiring residents needing high level care are back on the Federal Government’s agenda.
If the Government brings in residential aged care bonds, it would effectively be legislating
THE FEDERAL Government has finally announced the overhaul of safeguards to protect people from sexual abuse and serious assaults in nursing homes. The changes were covered in the previous issue of THE VOICE.
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