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If new incentives don’t work, mandatory policies may be the only way forward in ensuring high COVID vaccine coverage of staff.
National cabinet on Friday is expected to consider whether COVID vaccinations should be made mandatory for workers in aged care.
Richard Colbeck on aged care and the Olympics
Michelle Grattan discusses the aged sector, in particular its funding, and the Tokyo Olympics with Senator Richard Colbeck
An extra A$17.7 billion for aged care seems like a lot, but it still falls short of the royal commission’s recommendations.
In a new report, we outline four important steps the government must take to achieve real change in Australia’s aged-care system.
Remaking aged care in Australia starts with embracing people-centred design. Instead of the institutional model with its focus on restraint, we need to understand and design for people’s needs.
A Liberal male staffer masturbating on a female MP’s desk is merely a symptom of something very wrong in the Liberal Party’s attitudes to women, not the sum total of it.
New research suggests many Australians are supportive of a levy to improve the aged care system.
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Patrica Sparrow on the Royal Commission into Aged Care
Michelle Grattan discusses the findings of the royal commission into aged care with ACSA CEO Patricia Sparrow.
Many Australians come to the end of their life while living in aged care. But damningly, the aged care royal commission found many residents have worse palliative care options than those living elsewhere.
Disappointingly, however, this report gives the government room to pick and choose recommendations as the cabinet likes.
After two years, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has handed down its final report .
Aged-care workers earn little more than the minimum wage. Yet their job goes far beyond cleaning and caring. It’s time to take a leaf out of the nursing profession’s book and encourage more career prestige.
Two residents in a Brisbane aged-care home were given a higher dose of the Pfizer vaccine than recommended. Here’s what might have happened – and how we can reduce the risk it will happen again.
Aged-care residents will be among the first to receive the Pfizer vaccine when the rollout begins next week. For some, the process of consenting to the vaccine could raise ethical questions.
Whether an employer can insist on vaccination as a condition of employment is an ambiguous legal question, as shown by two recent unfair dismissal cases.
Publishing hospitalisation data is a good start. But ultimately we need information about each aged care facility’s performance to be publicly available.
In Ghana, adult children are straining to care for their aged parents and there is an increasing sense that government needs to step in.
The most important changes in Scott Morrison’s limited reshuffle are centred on two vital and controversial issues that will severely test the government in coming months.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University
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Professor in Ageing and Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Head of Clinical Services, Dementia Support Australia, & Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Dementia Care, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Nursing Aged Care (Dementia), University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW Sydney
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Senior Principal Research Fellow, National Ageing Research Institute
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Director of IMPACCT, Professor of Palliative Nursing, University of Technology Sydney
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Research fellow, Monash University
