ABOUT 3000 staff in aged-care facilities will be trained in dental hygiene under a $3 million plan to be announced by the Federal Government today. Aged-care staff get dental training. We’re ...

A new version of our booklet for aged care workers is available online.The Working in aged care booklet provides an overview of the new ways of ...

The financial services industry needs to pay more attention to the minimum training requirements around aged care advice but it should be self-regulated by the industry, according to Aged Care Steps.

A national review of aged care skills training has proposed a new qualification that will allow students, for the first time, to specialise in both aged care and disability support.

About 20 years ago, my neighbour told me she had removed her elderly father from an aged care facility where he was not receiving proper care to another place where he was much happier. I was 65 ...

Despite this shocking figure, none of the Aged Care Royal Commission's 148 recommendations released earlier this year specifically address the prevention of sexual violence.

In its aged care report last month the Productivity Commission aired some scathing assessments of the standard of courses. It recommended that a national audit of aged care training be carried out ...

The national skills regulator will weed out shonky aged-care training colleges that churn out graduates who are ill-prepared to work in nursing homes. Regulator launches review of aged-care training.

WATCHING a loved one suffer with Parkinson's - or even worse, being diagnosed themselves - is a heartbreaking reality for hundreds of people on the Fraser Coast.

There are around 50 sexual assaults in Australian aged care homes every week. But staff are expected to assess the severity and impact of incidents without training.