From October 1, aged care homes will need to meet both of their legislated care minutes targets, total care minutes and registered nurse minutes, to receive 3 stars or more for their staffing rating.

The changes on November 1, come amid reports of a staffing crisis in the troubled sector, that home care providers have been hiring debt collectors to chase elderly people in arrears and people are ...

Michael Woods is Professor of Health Economics at the UTS Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation. He is Policy Advisor to the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative (UARC) and Chairs the ...

Nicole Sutton is the co-lead of the Business & Strategy Theme at the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative. She contributes to research projects funded by the Department of Health and Aged Care. She is ...

OneCare chief executive officer Pete Williams says he will write to the Federal Aged Care and Seniors Minister, Sam Rae, asking him to pause funding for specific programs which he says are difficult ...

Craig Gear says the changes represent an new approach to aged care. "What the New Aged Care Act does is one, it does bring in ...