Thursday, 21st September, 2017
Aged care complaints rise by 20 per cent
COMPLAINTS to the Aged Care Complaints Commissioner about the treatment and care of older people in residential and home-based care has gone up 20 per…
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Thursday, 21st September, 2017
Teal touch for World Alzheimer's Day
Wednesday, 20th September, 2017
New $10 note released
Wednesday, 20th September, 2017
Canberra banks aim to become dementia friendly
Tuesday, 19th September, 2017
Meals, apartment and income support: Ex-RSL president's expenses revealed
Tuesday, 19th September, 2017
Lunchbox gas cookers recalled
Monday, 18th September, 2017
Lady (Mary) Fairfax dies, aged 95
Monday, 18th September, 2017
Calls for elderly to be given extra flu vaccination
A DEADLY strain of flu has killed 94 people in Victorian aged-care facilities so far this year, leading to calls for more frequent…
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Thursday, 14th September, 2017
Scrabble launches Aussie slang edition
ONYA, Scrabble.
Word nerds can now officially use Australian English's more colourful words to rake up high scores.
Mattel, the…
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Thursday, 14th September, 2017
NSW partially bans fees for paper bills
AS federal Consumer Affairs minister Michael McCormack puts his weight behind the campaign to stop businesses charging for paper bills…
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Friday, 8th September, 2017
Don’t turn a blind eye
CENTRAL COAST retiree Peter McGilvray was just eight years old when his sister’s partner tried to beat him.
“She was 20 and I remember her…
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Tuesday, 29th August, 2017
Victoria prepares for assisted dying bill debate
“THE safest scheme in the world” is how Premier Daniel Andrews describes the state government’s voluntary assisted dying bill due to be introduced to parliament…
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Friday, 25th August, 2017
Older renters living on edge
AN AGEING population, a lack of investment in public and social housing and skyrocketing private housing rents are leaving increasing numbers of elderly people in…
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Tuesday, 22nd August, 2017
Aged care gateway now easier to access
SIMPLIFYING who can speak for an elderly person seeking help from My Aged Care is one of the recent changes to the one-stop aged care…
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