With its budget announcement of $1.6 billion for 23,000 additional home care packages to help care for older Australians in their own homes, the government has taken a significant step in the right direction to support the thousands of elderly ...

Not surprising that the aged care mandarins are arguing about who should run the aged care show. Because there is no obvious winner that could take these 124 Royal Commission recommendations and turn them into something that will improve the ...

Too often when we think of a leader, we think of a person at the top of a pyramid or at the tip of an arrow. While leading ‘from the top’ or ‘from the front’ can be effective if your ...

There have always been three big age-stages in our lives – marked by turning 21, 40 and 65 (the key to the door, life begins at, the gold watch). So, as we live longer is a fourth turning up or ...

Despite all the scientific and medical advances of recent centuries, nothing can bring back the dead we have lost due to the pandemic. Nor can the prosperity and general affluence of modern life erase the pain of losing loved ones ...

For too long aged care services have focused on balancing budgets while compromising on client care. Unfortunately, the way funding is allocated and providers are evaluated has incentivised a budget-driven mindset, whereas I believe a person-centred model would provide better ...

More than a third of care residents who have contracted COVID-19 have died.[1] That’s more than 36 times higher than the rest of Australia’s population.If COVID-19 was tearing through schools or workplaces in such numbers there would be uproar and a call for ...

What a difference a few months can make. Experts here in Australia and around the world have been putting up a convincing use case for telehealth for close on three decades now. They know it can improve access to healthcare ...