The average cost for non-pensioners to get into a nursing home is now $300,000
Robert Craven, Senior Aged Care Adviser at Affinity Aged Care Financial Services joined us on…More
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Getting grandma high in the nursing home? Now you can in New York
Legal medical marijuana company Etain has reached an agreement with a nursing home in New York…More
Could you live to be 111?
It’s the age at which our oldest person, Mary Whitehurst, just passed away at in…More
An 18-storey skyscraper in suburban Melbourne? Why retirement villages and aged care need to go up
Another week, another story of residents fighting an aged care development. This week, it’s Calvary…More
Nursing home residents told ‘You Choose’ – Elvis and the pub, they said
Following the positive customer reaction to its ‘YouChoose’ home care service, BaptistCare is trialling the philosophy…More
Not in my backyard? Don’t NIMBYS understand they too will get old?
Case in point: the not-for-profit BaptistCare recently won a six-year battle with just five neighbours to…More
Join us to celebrate our aged care workers this Christmas with this new video – ‘Our Work is Care’
While we enjoy the festive season, 150,000 aged care workers will be missing out on…More
High school students play Santa to Central Coast village and nursing home residents
Local high school technology students have spent two weeks creating ‘padpod’ pillows for seniors at…More
Reaching out: Queensland nursing homes aim to fight loneliness among elderly
Wesley Mission Queensland is rolling out a person-directed care model across its nursing homes in…More
Proof that you’re never too old? 88-year-old nursing home resident stages solo art exhibition
Jim Aitkenhead, a resident at Freedom Aged Care’s Morayfield home in Caboolture South, Queensland, recently…More