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VIC: Lifestyle Communities acquires site for 20th LLC post image

VIC: Lifestyle Communities acquires site for 20th LLC

65% of rural, regional and remote aged care facilities made an operating loss in first quarter of 2019/20: StewartBrown post image

65% of rural, regional and remote aged care facilities made an operating loss in first quarter of 2019/20: StewartBrown

Government ‘kicks the bucket’ for $120K to find buyer for Murchison aged care home – after $400K injection in 2019 post image

Government ‘kicks the bucket’ for $120K to find buyer for Murchison aged care home – after $400K injection in 2019

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Sunshine Coast aged care home evacuated in middle of night after flooding post image

Sunshine Coast aged care home evacuated in middle of night after flooding

Feros Care introduces Google Assistant for home care clients – 20% reduction in calls to call centre post image

Feros Care introduces Google Assistant for home care clients – 20% reduction in calls to call centre

Peaks and providers reject 1.7% figure for aged care and home care submissions on the Royal Commission’s Consultation Paper – and who else made submissions? post image

Peaks and providers reject 1.7% figure for aged care and home care submissions on the Royal Commission’s Consultation Paper – and who else made submissions?

Just 1.7% of aged care and home care providers make submissions in response to Royal Commission’s aged care redesign paper post image

Just 1.7% of aged care and home care providers make submissions in response to Royal Commission’s aged care redesign paper

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Royal Commission’s next hearing to set direction for future of aged care workforce – with two high-profile international witnesses post image

Royal Commission’s next hearing to set direction for future of aged care workforce – with two high-profile international witnesses

Public reporting of staffing levels – and minimum staffing ratios – on the cards at upcoming workforce hearings post image

Public reporting of staffing levels – and minimum staffing ratios – on the cards at upcoming workforce hearings

More data, public reporting, incentives for providers required to reable older people under new ‘Investment Stream’, panel tells Commission post image

More data, public reporting, incentives for providers required to reable older people under new ‘Investment Stream’, panel tells Commission

Nurses reject idea of individualised funding to provide more support at home – but Department of Health representative backs separate ‘Care Stream’ in “very lively session” post image

Nurses reject idea of individualised funding to provide more support at home – but Department of Health representative backs separate ‘Care Stream’ in “very lively session”

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Commissioner Briggs warns providers must be prepared to “jump through hoops” for more funding – and pleads for sector’s leaders to step up or exit post image

Commissioner Briggs warns providers must be prepared to “jump through hoops” for more funding – and pleads for sector’s leaders to step up or exit