The government has praised a new funding model proposed for residential aged care. Called the Australian National Aged Care Classification system (AN-ACC), its authors say it explicitly focuses on improving quality of care, rather than paying providers. Professor Kathy Eagar, ...

The federal member for Mayo, Rebekha Sharkie, has recently announced that she will advocate for a $1000 dental voucher for pensioners as part of her 2019 federal election campaign. This echoes calls from the Benevolent Society, which has been campaigning ...

Revelations this week from a leaked report commissioned by Aged Care Minister Ken Wyatt show that providers are charging “obscene” fees for home care packages. The Nine Publishing newspapers revealed that in some instances, providers are charging half of their ...

Here’s a simple idea for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Let’s try and assist as many older people as possible to stay at home to receive their care. To help this along, we should try to ...

More than 300 people attended the Aged Care Royal Commission’s community forum at the sprawling Bankstown Sports Club in Sydney on Friday 1 March. Commissioner Lynelle Briggs attended the event, which she said was the first of its kind held for any ...

The reputation of the aged care sector and individual providers will inevitably be damaged by the evidence expected at the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, which started on February 11. The sector faces significant reform, which has ...

In the final two days of the first hearing of the royal commission we heard from the people affected by the system itself and had a summary of the proceedings to date. Kaye Warrener described to the commission the near ...

Day five of the aged care royal commission saw a set of tense exchanges between counsel assisting Dr Timothy McEvoy and Leading Age Services Australia chief executive Sean Rooney. Rooney was taken to task by McEvoy over a number of ...