In response to an increasing number of escalations of non-payment of government subsidies, duplication of subsidies and time taken to resolve these issues, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) has collaborated with the Department of Human Services in developing a new...

Aged Care in the Yorke Peninsula and Lower North will be on the agenda at a regional forum in Port Broughton on Tuesday 20 November. The national peak body for aged care, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA), is hosting the forum to provide information to local...

Leading Age Services Australia Limited (LASA), the voice of aged care, has backed a call from Victoria’s Bush Nursing Centres (BNCs) for the State Government to immediately fund an enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) with nurses. The Balmoral Bush Nursing Centre has...

Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) has welcomed the release of details on the Remote Aged Care Workforce Accord initiative. The Accord is one of the recommendations contained in the Aged Care Workforce Strategy released last month and aims to provide a unified...

Leading Age Services Australia Limited (LASA) has welcomed new funding for the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. The Government yesterday announced it would...

Leading Age Services Australia Limited (LASA), the voice of aged care, has called on the Victorian Government to commit to further funding the state’s Bush Nursing Centres (BNCs). LASA, which represents Victoria’s 15 community-based, not-for-profit Bush Nursing...

Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) has announced a new partnership with Universal Care Training (UCT) to deliver a comprehensive suite of in-person and online training courses for the aged services industry. “This partnership builds on LASA’s existing courses...

A nurse practitioner, a health and wellbeing team and a provider serving older Australians in two states including remote areas have been recognised for excellence at the aged care industry’s biggest event of the year. The inaugural Leading Age Services Australia...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Let me start by acknowledging the Traditional Owners of the land on which we are meeting today, the Kaurna people.  I pay my respects to their elders, past and present, and acknowledge their connection to this land and their continuing contribution to...

The transformation of age services in Australia will be the focus of the Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) National Congress in Adelaide starting on Sunday 28 October. Around 1,200 attendees will make LASA Congress the largest gathering of the aged care industry...