Researchers from the National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA) Residential Aged Care Research Network (RACReN) want to hear what you think are the most important areas to research in residential aged care. This information will be shared with aged care researchers to ensure they are researching what matters most to everyone involved in residential aged […]
COTA calls for an ‘Essential Visitor’ system in aged care after fresh reports of damaging impacts on residents due to extended lockdowns in Melbourne and Sydney Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia is calling on all State and Territory governments to immediately ensure that their public health orders and directions relating to COVID-19 and nursing
The Royal Commission’s final report into Aged Care Quality and Safety, released in March, included 148 recommendations to improve Australia’s aged care system. While the Royal Commission has finished, COTA Victoria encourages everyone to continue the conversation for a better aged care system. We need to speak up and out loud and demand the Government
As the long-running Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety continues to investigate the failures in Australia’s aged care system, COTA Victoria recently hosted two remote focus groups for older people to consider proposed system redesigns. The focus groups were supported by COTA Australia, which provided information about the aged care system redesign, options
March and August 2020 Working with partner organisation Bellarine Community Health, we empowered older people in one of Victoria’s coastal communities to have their say in a major national aged care reform debate. The issue On 8 October 2018, the Australian Government launched the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. The Royal Commission
MEDIA RELEASE | 24 April 2020 Digital divide aged care challenge for older people Age more than any other factor defines digital inequality in Australia The CEO of the Council on the Ageing (COTA) Victoria, Tina Hogarth-Clarke said many older victims of the COVID-19 pandemic have significant challenges in bridging the digital divide as they
MEDIA RELEASE | 19 March 2020 SAFETY – RESPECT – COMPASSION Essential foundations of a successful new aged care visitor restrictions regime Some aged care providers are using the new restrictions for visitors to residential aged care facilities as an excuse for unacceptable restraint on the rights of residents and families to be treated with
COTA Australia has welcomed the Aged Care Royal Commission’s confirmation that neglect, abuse and poor care are more widespread than governments and many providers have been prepared to accept. COTA has called this out over many years. COTA Australia Chief Executive Ian Yates also welcomed the acknowledgement, contained within the Royal Commission’s Interim Report, that
Aged care services in Australia have changed considerably in recent years. Whilst the range of services available continues to expand, many people are feeling very confused about what’s available and how to best access what they need. COTA Victoria is part of a national trial to support people new to the aged care system. The
The Aged Care Royal Commission shone a light on the woeful quality and nutrition of food in aged care, with some centres spending as little as $6 a day on food per resident. The Victorian Government wants to lift meal standards in public aged care centres and hospitals – this is your chance to have
MEDIA RELEASE | 31 October 2019 Aged Care Royal Commission Interim Report provides Government the mandate to commence transformation by December MYEFO Australia’s peak body of older Australians, Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia, today congratulated the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety on its “Interim Report: Neglect”, which has recognised not only the
Our Community Engagement and Advocacy Officer, Amanda Kunkler, recently shared a range of consumer views at the National Ageing Research Institute Summit. The discussion focussed on what makes good aged care, now and into the future. The Summit coincided with the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety’s Melbourne hearings, meaning it was a
