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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...

Leading Age Services Australia (LASA), the voice of aged care, has welcomed the appointment of Janet Anderson as Australia’s first Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner. Chief Executive Sean Rooney said LASA is committed to working with the Commission to ensure...

Leading Age Services Australia (LASA), the voice of aged care, has acknowledged the release of the Health, Aged Care and Sport Committee’s report on the Inquiry into the Quality of Care in Residential Aged Care Facilities in Australia. The inquiry, Chaired by Trent...

Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) Chief Executive Officer Sean Rooney says that recognising the true costs of delivering age services and providing realistic funding is the only way we can guarantee a sustainable age services industry that meets the needs of all...