The new government website (www.gen-agedcaredata.gov.au) provides some interesting data about the provision of aged care services in Australia. The aged care system provides care for people in their own homes or in a residential aged care facility. The Government sets targets for the number of aged care places in home care and residential care for[…]

The recent media focus on alleged poor care of residents at some Opal aged care facilities in August 2017 where some residents were apparently badly treated and were too old or cognitively impaired to put up much of a fuss, is indicative of either an industry that has not matured sufficiently and is throwing up[…]