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Harbison prepares for busy year of building
Residential aged care provider Harbison is due to begin construction on a new 72-bed aged care home in Burradoo next month. Funding for the home has been provided through the Aged Care Capital...
View ArticleSeniors deserve support to live their best lives
When fires, floods or droughts hit, we briefly shine a light on mental health. But there’s a quiet crisis unfolding daily behind closed doors, with older Australians grappling with loneliness, low...
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Emotional intelligence should matter when hiring
In aged care, technical qualifications often dominate the hiring process. Years of experience, certifications, and procedural knowledge are heavily weighted, and rightly so. But what is often...
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National recognition for Aveo village manager
Retirement living provider Aveo is celebrating its Bayview Gardens Retirement Living village manager Melinda Akehurst, who has been named Programmed Village Manager of the Year at the Property Council...
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Nurse celebrates 40 years with Carinity
Aged care nurse Esther Arulogun is celebrating five decades of nursing, with the last four of them spent caring for seniors in Ipswich, Queensland at Carinity Colthup Manor. Ms Arulogun said that...
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Online business listings require active management
When a user searches online for aged care provider information, the search engines rely heavily on the information they have in their own local business directory (maps) listings. These listings need...
View ArticleLeading change with care
In the world of aged care, the word care must go beyond the services we provide to residents. It must extend to the people who provide that care every day. That principle has guided much of my...
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Financial viability top concern of providers
Enkindle has published its Home Care Provider Outlook Report 2025, which shows financial viability as the major concern of providers and preparedness for incoming reforms as the top priority. The aged...
View ArticleAudit rules released for care minute statements
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has announced details this week regarding the incoming requirement for all residential aged care providers to engage an external auditor to complete an...
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Specialist dementia units can improve quality of life: research
For people with very severe behaviours and psychological symptoms of dementia, commonly referred to as BPSD, Specialist Dementia Care Program care models can play a crucial role in addressing systemic...
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Odyssey celebrates DA for third community
Odyssey Lifestyle Care Communities has received development approval for its third site, to be built in the Gold Coast’s northern suburb of Hope Island. The land was originally acquired in March 2024....
View ArticleUQ breakthrough in understanding Alzheimer’s
Researchers from the University of Queensland’s School of Biomedical Sciences have found a crucial link between early brain degeneration, impaired waste clearance in the brain and the deterioration of...
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Norton to retire from Resthaven
Resthaven executive manager of finance and technology David Norton will retire this week. Mr Norton joined the Resthaven board as treasurer in 2008, and following a restructure at the South Australian...
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Don’t forget to celebrate the wins, say executives
Columbia Aged Care Services chief executive officer Lucy O’Flaherty used her time on the Transition to the New Aged Care Act panel on day 1 of the Ageing Australia NSW/ACT conference to encourage...
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Help solve the problem of falls in care homes
Every year, 144,000 older Australians are hospitalised because of a fall and 6,000 die. Twenty-six thousand Australians hospitalised for a fall every year are residents of aged care homes. Dr Suzanne...
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You can help prevent falls, updated guide shows
The new national guidelines on falls prevention include seven, fourteen and four recommendations for residential aged care, community and hospital settings respectively, along with good practice...
View ArticleProviders need final SaH manual sooner, says peak
Ageing Australia chief executive officer Tom Symondson has called for a quicker turnaround between the finalisation of the rules and publishing of the manual for the Support at Home program, which is...
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Sector sees further market consolidation
As of 30 June 2024, professional services organisation KPMG reported 196,848 people were accessing residential care, a 3.2 per cent increase since 30 June 2023. The Aged Care Market Analysis 2025...
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Inclusion has to go further than strategy
For inclusion to be truly meaningful it needs to be written in more places than just the strategic plan, Accessible Diversity Services Initiative non-executive director Krista O’Sullivan has told...
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Skills funding for aged care nurses
La Trobe University has secured a $3.8 million funding injection to boost the skills of thousands of nurses working Victorian residential aged care homes as part of a $144 million Commonwealth...
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