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Pre-Budget 2025-26 Submission

3 February, 2025

The Maggie Beer Foundation’s Pre-Budget 2025-26 Submission continues to focus on the high and unacceptable risk of malnutrition among older Australians living both in aged care and their own homes. Our submission seeks funding to continue our Trainer Mentor Program beyond 2026 along with funding for a collaborative project focused on older people receiving aged […]

Featured Article – Improving Aged Care Dining with Maggie Beer Foundation Training

9 December, 2024

Senior Chef Trainer Michael Nam was featured in ABC News Southeast SA, highlighting the Maggie Beer Foundation’s training programs being implemented in aged care homes across Australia. These initiatives aim to enhance residents’ quality of life through improved food and dining experiences, with residents reporting positive impacts and additional benefits. Read more!

Consultation on Draft Australian Falls Guidelines

29 November, 2024

The Maggie Beer Foundation is pleased to support the draft Australian Falls Guidelines on Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People. We think that the guidelines could and should go further and the reference to nutrition should be much more explicit if we are to prevent falls in all three settings. We need […]

Governor General Announced as Patron for The Maggie Beer Foundation

13 November, 2024

We are absolutely honoured and thrilled to welcome Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC, as our Patron. Our Founder, Maggie Beer AO shares Her Excellency’s passion to elevate and honour care as “the quieter, better part of ourselves”, a sentiment expressed by the Governor General in her swearing in speech. We look forward […]

Training and Education Programs for Cooks, Chefs and Providers.

1 November, 2024

The Maggie Beer Foundation, funded by the Australian Federal Government’s Department of Health and Aged Care, are delivering education and training to improve the dining, food, and nutritional outcomes for older people in Aged Care.  This education program offers support to Providers, Homes, Cooks and Chefs in a range of activities and they are all […]