According to the Australian Human Rights Commission, young people are particularly vulnerable and are more likely to hide their sexuality or gender identity, largely out of fear of violence and…
Australian aged care facilities have access to extensive personal information about their residents and their families and staff. This information can put providers at increased risk of cyber crime. It is…
On 22 February this year, the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme came into play in Australia. This directly affects all health service providers including aged care facilities. So what does…
Samantha Bowen is the Founding Director of Acorn Network. She is a Federal Advisory Board Member for The NHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research (The Dementia Institute), an international speaker,…
Ashley Fell, Social Researcher, McCrindle says, “Trends affecting the Australian workplace this year include teleworking, tenure shifts, multi-career expectations, the gig economy, and emerging attraction, retention and engagement factors. What…
Google ‘risk in aged care’ in Australia & you’ll receive over 5 million search results in less than 0.42 seconds. Mr Grant Corderoy, a senior partner at Stewart Brown has…
There is an estimated number of 366,027 PAYG aged care workers in Australia. By 2050, the productivity commission estimates we will need 980,000 workers. That’s another 613,973 people or 19,186…
A changing landscape Several legislative reforms have resulted in key changes to, and the importance of, accommodation revenue in residential aged care facilities. What’s more, the reforms have resulted in…
To kick start our new year, we attended the Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) innovAGEING launch, held in Canberra on 24 January 2018. innovAGEING is Australia’s national innovation network for…
There’s been quite a lot of speculation of late in the aged care industry, particularly around the Residential Aged Care Reform and the announcement of the Review of the Aged…