Call for mandatory guidelines for home delivered meals
Australia’s peak body for nutrition professionals is calling for the mandatory adoption of national guidelines for home delivered meals for...
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Women with disability at greater risk of violence during lockdown
Women with disability are experiencing three times the rate of family violence during COVID-19 as their able-bodied counterparts, the disability...
Opinion: Staying safe at home
No one deserves to end their days isolated and separated from their loved ones, writes Adjunct Professor Dale Fisher. Dale...
Disability royal commission puts spotlight on COVID
The disability royal commission will examine the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of people with disability when it resumes...
Home care workers miss out on paid pandemic leave
Home care workers have been left out of a decision by the Fair Work Commission to allow paid pandemic leave...
NDIS funding for masks, PPE as 25 contract Covid
NDIS participants and providers in Victoria and NSW will be able claim the cost of personal protective equipment as part...
Face masks mandated for Victorian Covid hotspots
Aged care workers who provide home support across Victoria’s lockdown zones will have to wear face masks from now on...
Minister writes letter to providers as Covid flares in Victoria
Aged care minister Richard Colbeck has written a letter to aged care providers thanking them for their response to Covid-19...
NDIS providers must pay back COVID cash advance
The government is rolling back loadings on NDIS supports and will ask disability providers to pay back advance payments as...
COVID highlights role, plight of informal carers
COVID-19 has highlighted the gaps in support and resources informal carers face, an international expert says. Professor Emily Ying Yang...
Govt accused of backflipping on retention bonus
The government has been accused of misleading aged care workers after saying payments under the COVID-19 retention bonus grant will...
Dementia gene mutation could double COVID risk
A large US study has found that having a faulty gene linked to dementia can double the risk of developing...