Two years after the introduction of personalised funding in the home care sector, the evidence of its impact of increasing choice, control and quality through competitive markets is mixed. Research commissioned by the Department of Health to evaluate the experiences ...

Phil Goulding stopped talking. It was only for a few moments, but the silence was noticeable. Up until then our conversation had been flowing freely. You see, we were talking about the face of ageing prisoners in Australia and it ...

Aged care wasn’t entirely forgotten about in this year’s Budget announcements – with a number of measures welcomed by the sector – but those waiting for home care were. The government celebrated a $7.1 billion surplus but Leading Aged Services Australia said this ...

With a federal election looming, the Greens have announced a funding model for aged care, a component of their ‘human rights-based approach to funding’. Part of their package will provide funding for 50,000 new level 3 and 4 home care packages, ...

“My sense of place in the world was gone…” This is the quote from a younger Australian on entering aged care that Minister for Social Services Paul Fletcher read out in his keynote address to the Summer Foundation/Youngcare Get Building ...

On Tuesday, the royal commission heard witness testimony from home care recipient Josef Rack. He told the commission about his seven years of frustrating home care with Southern Cross Care, where he claimed he was overcharged and ignored. He tendered ...

The Greens are pledging 50,000 extra home care packages over three years at a cost of close to $5.5 billion to improve the aged care sector. This will be paired with $3 billion towards improving worker conditions, including the promise ...

An assessor in the Approved Provider Program Section of the Department of Health, whose identity has been suppressed, has told the royal commission that many potential aged care providers are, in their opinion, “bottom feeders”. The witness, who was referred ...