This week, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety hearings focused on aged care in the home. Most Australians want to stay in their homes for as long as possible as they advance in age ...

From cost to what to look for, aged care insiders have revealed how to navigate the system and find the best home. Rosemary Seam has lived in residential aged care in regional NSW for five years. The ...

Rosemary Kennedy received funding from DMA Engineers to devise and facilitate the design workshop 'Feels like home' at The University of Queensland. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of ...

Some regional aged care providers say elderly clients have to find a bed hundreds of kilometres away from home due to high demand. They say the mandated nurse-to-patient ratio and a shortage of staff ...

Now Maggie has terminal cancer, but she doesn’t want to die in a residential aged care home or a hospital. She wants to see out her days in the retirement village in Melbourne’s outer east where the ...

More than nine per cent of residents were given the medication – often used as a sedative – without a doctor’s diagnosis over the course of a week in the recent quarter, up from 8.4 per cent in ...