Whether you’re a new leader or an experienced head, workplaces are constantly changing. It’s always worth self-reflecting on your leadership style to ensure you effectively support your team and organisation as a whole. In this section, you’ll find a collection of informative articles to help you become the best leader you can be.
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Navigating VAD with wisdom and kindness – Uniting NSW.ACT’s Tracey Burton shares the policy and heart behind supporting residents, front-line staff in this deeply human area of care
Uniting’s Tracey Burton shares how provider leadership can support person-centred VAD care for residents, family members and staff of all convictions and beliefs.
Support at Home cracks are widening – in-home aged care cost confusion impacting senior choices and multiple sectors
The unpredictability of in-home service costs, and growing unaffordability is impacting seniors across the country. Reform is needed to overhaul pricing models and program structure to safeguard dignity for seniors, and sustainability of health and aged care sectors.
Every hospital dollar spent must punch above its weight – Critical report highlights immediate need to overhaul healthcare spending to improve and safeguard care
Report finds that public spending on hospitals must improve. Productively using each dollar is critical efficiency for system longevity and excellent in human care.
Aged care continues to face a workforce challenge – Recruiting expert Anthony Nguyen suggests calculated risk may pave the path to bring the best candidates to the sector
Anthony Nguyen, recruitment expert, places storytelling at the heart of attracting the best fit staff to aged care. With the continued workforce challenge and boomer cohort entering aged care, the stakes continue to rise to get this right.
With accessing aged care a tangled confusion, scammers are exploiting – High performing providers are stepping up to protect the seniors they serve
Scammers are exploiting aged care confusion. While waiting for aged care answers to be untangled by government, providers have an opportunity to provide policy and practice that provide clarity in accessible immediacy.
Repealing the ‘cannoli’ is not enough – states remain mired in reactive policy reform argument, preventative measures mean collectively braving the Support at Home debacle
Support at Home scheme overhaul integral to seniors accessing supports to stay at home longer and healthier. State governments may open reform effectiveness, through a collective focus, to include preventative measures to mitigate strain on hospitals.
Moving ‘mountains’ and people, allied health aims high – After a stroke a resident wanted to walk again, Simon Kerrigan of Guide Healthcare said they’d try
Collaboration between providers and allied health professionals has the potential to supercharge innovation and improve care for seniors across the country. Simon Kerrigan of Guide Healthcare shares his story to encourage future growth with long-term positive impacts for seniors.
A complicated road to rights-based care – While promising ‘a once-in-a-lifetime’ change, the new act still requires significant resources to understand and improve
Once in a lifetime change takes time, from government sources, to provider understanding, rules, costs and navigating it all must become more clear for the seniors at its heart.
Education facilitates safety – empowering LGBTQIA+ residents and front-line staff in restrictive practices in Victoria
Aged Care Justice provides important fact sheet for LGTBTIA+ seniors, as well as front-line staff and providers, to navigate the complex area of restrictive practices in care.
Preparing for reform: why resident-centred thinking matters
Australia’s new, rights-based Aged Care Act takes effect on 1 November 2025, marking one of the most significant shifts the sector has seen in decades. With change comes uncertainty and opportunity for the industry. Cameron McPherson, Chief Executive Officer of Medical & Aged Care Group (MACG), reflects on the challenges and opportunities facing both providers and residents.
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