Two thirds of upcoming budget will relate to health system and challenge of ageing population. The federal budget will be able to tackle health reform and the ageing population because the government does not have to navigate through the rubble ...

Those on age pension, disability support pension, carer payment, veteran income support payments all to receive increases. About four million people are set to receive a bigger pension payment from this month, the federal government has said. The pension payment ...

Aged care must be an integral consideration in the government’s planned reform of health services. Australia’s peak national body for not-for-profit aged and community care providers has welcomed the government’s move to deliver better health and hospitals to Australians. Aged ...

New research raises questions about transition care program. The transition care program has not achieved its goal of improving the flow of older people moving between hospitals, community and residential sectors, new research has found. The study linked, for the ...

But will ghost beds come back to haunt Justine Elliot? The Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, has finally announced details of the 2010-11 Aged Care Assessment Round (ACAR), almost three months later than expected. It is thought the delay was ...

Providers have given Prime Minister Kevin Rudd an ultimatum. Fix aged care or else be punished at the polls in next year’s election. A new coalition representing 95 per cent of all providers has written to Rudd saying they will ...