“With ongoing sector reforms and pressures we feel that the time is right to deliver practical innovation training for the people who provide aged care services by experts who work within aged care services sector," LASA CEO Sean Rooney, says.
Aged care minister Richard Colbeck has joined aged care peak bodies ACSA and LASA to encourage more visitors to return to residential aged care facilities across Australia.
Leading Age Services Australia and Aged and Community Services Australia have joined forces to provide advice to residential aged care facilities regarding the deployment of Australian Defence Force personnel.
About a third of COVID-19 deaths in Australia this year have occurred in residential aged care, with more than half of all NSW facilities battling outbreaks.
Sean Rooney, CEO of Leading Aged Services Australia (LASA), tells Aged Care News that the pressure from Omicron is only compounding existing issues within the aged care sector. BIANCA ROBERTS reports
Two of the nation's most influential aged care provider peak bodies are merging in order to 'design and implement a new way of working that better represents and supports all providers of aged care services'.
NewDirection Care Bellmere made history on Friday night, becoming the first organisation to win two awards in the same year at the prestigious 2021 innovAGEING National Awards.
Older Australians are missing out on care as a result of aged care worker shortages made worse by COVID-19, according to the Australian Aged Care Collaboration.
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