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Policy & Reform
Government delays Support at Home price caps
The federal government has delayed introducing price caps for the Support at Home program, citing market instability, while announcing new consumer protections including refund powers, quarterly price reporting and stronger oversight to guard older Australians against unfair charges.
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Digital Health
New standards framework for digital health
The new National Framework for Digital Health Standards sets consistent rules for digital health systems, with experts urging that older Australians be included in design and training to ensure technology remains accessible, respectful and clinically safe.
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Culturally Informed Care
Choir creates community for ageing migrants
In a Fremantle community hall, an Italian choir is helping older migrants living with dementia reconnect with memory, identity and each other, offering a powerful reminder that culturally familiar music can reach people in ways conventional care often cannot.
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Clinical Practice
Report reveals aged care VAD failures
A new national report has found that most aged‑care providers are failing to support residents’ access to voluntary assisted dying, with 73 per cent offering unclear or no access and two‑thirds providing no public information about the legal end‑of‑life option.
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Opinion
Aged care model needs rethinking: Opinion
Despite major reforms, older Australians are waiting weeks for assessment and more than 200 days for services, while operators warn the sector is becoming less sustainable and increasingly dominated by large corporate providers.
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In-home Care
Support at Home: Urgent calls for action, funding
The Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN) has blasted the Albanese government, demanding urgent action to address the ongoing challenges threatening to destabilise the transition to the Support at Home (SaH) program.
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Policy & Reform
Australians wait 12 months for aged care
A new federal report shows older Australians are now waiting more than a year for aged care support, with experts warning the delays are driven by workforce shortages, limited home‑care places and rising demand as the population rapidly ages.
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Wages
Aged care provider to repay $11.7m to workers
The Fair Work Ombudsman has ordered Southern Cross Care to repay millions in wages after a self‑audit uncovered years of underpayments affecting thousands of aged care staff across NSW and the ACT, some owed more than $44,000.
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Funding
Vic budget boosts aged care
The Victorian Budget delivers a sweeping $3.9 billion boost to the state’s health system, expanding aged care, hospital upgrades, emergency response capacity and home‑based care programs, while backing the health workforce with new training pathways and hundreds of additional clinical…
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Industry News
Services Union rallies despite imprisonment threats
Union members will defy warnings of imprisonment when they march on the offices of a major business lobbying group, as the Fair Work Commission mulls sweeping changes that could cost workers hundreds per week.
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AI
Medical AI advancing faster than safety checks
New research shows advanced AI models can match or exceed doctors on diagnostic tasks, but Flinders University experts warn these systems are advancing faster than the safety frameworks needed to govern their use in real‑world healthcare.
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In-home Care
Preventing hospitalisations using a multidisciplinary care model
For too many older people, the supports they need don’t arrive early enough, or in a way that keeps them safe and well at home. Avoidable hospitalisations continue to place enormous pressure on older people, families and the health system.
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