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Chief Executive Officer of Australia’s peak age services body, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) Sean Rooney acknowledged the Government’s announcement requiring aged care providers to make flu vaccines available for aged care workers. “Mandating aged care...

Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) CEO Sean Rooney welcomes the Turnbull Government’s response to the Carnell-Paterson Review recommendations, including the establishment of an independent Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission to centralise accreditation,...

LASA CEO Sean Rooney said the availability of care and services is seen to be a major driver in choice and decision-making around seniors housing options. “Older Australians will choose to remain living as independently as possible, in their own Retirement Village...

Australia’s voice of aged care, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA), today called for Federal and State governments to work collaboratively and constructively with the age services industry in the interests of older Australians. LASA CEO Sean Rooney said 2018 must...

New data released by independent industry analyst StewartBrown shows that 41% of residential aged care providers were making a loss at December 2017 compared with 31% in 2015-16 - and the situation is predicted to get even worse. Aged care peak bodies, Aged &...

Australia’s voice of aged care, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA), said that the high quality of residential aged care is not negotiable, noting concerns raised by the ABC in media reports today. LASA CEO Sean Rooney said we all want and are striving...

LASA CEO Sean Rooney will hit the road in April to provide an opportunity for industry executives and board members across the country to hear the latest from Canberra on the state of the age services industry. “2018 must be a year of action for age services in...

In a rapidly ageing Australia, a high-performing aged care workforce is a national priority. A national approach to planning and monitoring our aged care workforce, including developing a national training and capability framework, and making...

The outstanding achievements of the age services industry in Queensland were recognised at Leading Age Services Australia’s Excellence in Age Services Awards, sponsored by Hesta and McCullough Robertson Lawyers, on the Gold Coast last night. LASA CEO Sean Rooney said...

LASA CEO Sean Rooney spoke with ABC Brisbane’s Craig Zonca and Rebecca Levingston on Friday 9 March about a range of issues including care quality, staffing, the make-up of providers in the sector, and comments made recently by Queensland’s Health Minister...