After the challenges of funding significant spending on COVID-19, 2021’s $17.7bn aged care reform package and the additional $2.1bn for mental health, it was not unreasonable to expect that 2022’s pre-election budget would be less exciting for health than previous ...

One of the aged care sector's most outspoken advocates has announced she will enter the race to replace Health and Aged Care Minister Greg Hunt in the independent seat of Flinders during the upcoming election. Director of Aged Care Matters ...

The federal government has highlighted the reforms it says it has made a year after the handing down of the final report of the aged care royal commission, but the sector’s peak body is calling for increased funding and a ...

As news headlines and political debates about Australia's embattled aged care sector rage on, frontline staff have been entirely left out of the conversation according to industry advocates. After 12 years in the industry, former aged care nurse and aged ...

Correction: the first edition of this article claimed that the new home care system will "adopt a centrally regulated market model" which is inaccurate. An overview of the federal government’s reform plan for home care has been published, giving an ...

Could aged care strategists learn from the recent shift in climate change strategy once leadersaccepted that our lives depended on it and that we had no choice? We wondered what a strategy for changing aged care would look like if ...

Aged care peak bodies ACSA and LASA have confirmed that they will merge and hope to provide a unified voice for the aged care sector. The two major peaks, as part of the Australian Aged Care Collaboration (AACC), recently announced ...

Australia’s healthcare system will buckle under an increase in cases of Alzheimer’s disease unless systemic reform is introduced, experts have warned. The nation’s top brain doctors and advocates outlined a number of strategies to better treat the condition in the ...

Leading advocates are in talks with the federal government about implementing the first recommendation of the royal commission, a new Aged Care Act. A coalition of 25 peak bodies, including the Older Person’s Advocacy Network (OPAN), has said that they ...

Opening a window or using an air filtration device will be critical to help curb the spread of COVID-19 during the hotter summer months, experts have flagged. As restrictions begin to ease in NSW, Victoria and the ACT, indoor areas with ...