WorkSafe Victoria will work with health and aged care facilities to identify the best ways to reduce the risk of manual handling injuries occurring to health and community services workers.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly establish a Chair and Professorship of Ageing (Veterans and Community) between Australian Catholic University (ACU National) and the RSL Veterans’ Retirement Villages will be signed in the Vice-Chancellery, 40 Edward Street, North Sydney on Tuesday, 3August at 2.40pm.

Life for federal politicians is not all beer and skittles as minister for ageing Julie Bishop was quick to point out during her visit to Dubbo at the weekend.

An Australian Government-funded innovative training program for aged care workers has won a prestigious national industry training award.

All Australians are being encouraged to play a role in helping to make caring communities that support older Australians as our population ages, Federal Minister for Ageing Julie Bishop said today at the opening of a major community care conference in Perth

The Federal Minister for Ageing, Julie Bishop, has announced the re-appointment of John Lang as a director of the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency as well as the agency’s chief executive officer, Mark Brandon.

TIGHT-fisted aged care hostels are feeding sick and frail elderly Queenslanders for as little as $2 a day, a union says.

Frail, elderly and disabled residents in urgent need of home care will face longer waiting lists and reduced services unless councils receive more government funding, the Municipal Association of Victoria says.

Residents in Western Australian Baptist Hospitals and Homes Trust aged care homes will benefit from more than $1.7 million in Australian Government funding presented by Minister for Ageing Julie Bishop during a visit to William Carey Court in Busselton today.

Alzheimer's Australia says Queensland nursing homes often have inadequate staff to deal with people with dementia.