Publications

Australian aged care providers diligently track bed occupancy rates, medication errors, and staff-to-resident ratios. Yet they're systematically overlooking the one metric that drives all others: communication competency. This oversight represents a multi billion dollar opportunity hiding in plain sight.

Australia’s aged care sector faces a worsening workforce shortage, impacting not only the quality of care delivered, but the ability for providers to meet the growing demand for services. 

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We look at strategies providers can implement to emphasise retention when they are recruiting new staff.

WIth the growing demand for staff in the aged care sector and the rapid pace of change in technology solutions, knowing how to find the right candidates to fulfil care requirements is an ongoing challenge Aged Care Providers. This article explores the opportunities and challenges created by AI in recruitment, and what this means for the aged care sector. 

As the aged care landscape continues to evolve, the need for best practice exercise programs has become increasingly important. Dr Tim Henwood, a renowned expert in exercise physiology and gerontology, brings his extensive experience to this crucial discussion.

With UARC’s Australia’s Aged Care Sector Report highlighting that only 36.1% of providers met both Care Minute and RN minute targets in the last quarter, we sat down with Juniper Aged Care CEO, Russell Bricknell to discuss the workforce strategies.

18 months have passed since the introduction of the Aged Care Industry Labour Agreement. The ACILA was introduced to address growing workforce shortages in the sector. This article discusses the purpose of the ACILA and its impact on the industry.

With Australia's constantly changing demographics and the impact of positive net migration over the past 40 years, we look at how this is shaping the need for a new workforce in Home Care. Paul Sadler, provides his thoughts on this constantly evolving workforce situation.

With new generations of Australian's entering Aged Care, we take a deep dive on the numbers and look at how the workforce will need to evolve to an ever changing clientbase in the sector.