Attadale Rehabilitation Hospital: Brightware Care Group nabs facility from Ramsay Health Care
Brightwater has bought the Attadale Rehabilitation Hospital from Ramsay Health with plans to convert the site into an…
Vacant and underused land to make way for housing in next phase of Queensland land activation program
The Queensland government has announced the next phase of its program to sell vacant and underused state-owned land…
Older Australians with motor neurone disease consider early euthanasia under aged care system
Glenn Rowan’s degenerative motor neurone disease (MND) has forced him to make a difficult choice: bleed money to…
Bed block patients deteriorate during long waits for aged care beds
Gwen Webb feels like she is wasting away. After six months in a temporary hospital bed waiting for…
Aged Care Minister Sam Rae grilled over human involvement in aged care assessments
The aged care minister has refused to admit there is no human override in the final step of…
Six key pillars of frailty prevention and management
Developed and endorsed by 77 healthcare experts and six consumers with lived experience, UQ researchers have published a…
Residents at risk due to missed osteoporosis medication
The most widely used osteoporosis medication in residential aged care – denosumab and bisphosphonates – are frequently missed…
A national endowment model for Australia’s ageing challenge
Australia is entering a major demographic transition. The population is ageing rapidly, demand for aged care services is…
Steve Price: My mum’s fight for at home care exposes Australia’s aged care failures
This is personal and hard to share. On Monday this week I sat down at the kitchen table…
Older Australians concerned about Labor’s plan to reduce private health insurance rebates
Disability pensioner Denise Peters puts a high value on her private health insurance. It has helped pay for…
Culture, gender and birth order meant I would always be in the ‘sandwich generation’
Cindy Mai has always known she would be the one to care for her aging parents. As the…
Australians ‘literally dying’ as aged care average wait times surpass 365 days
The federal government has been accused by its political opponents of burying “confronting” new figures showing Australians are…