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 ...

Perhaps the most frightening feature of the pandemic year of 2020 for those with an interest in age care was the Covid-19 mortality rate amongst the residents and staff of care homes. Caught first by the rapid international spread of ...

The government has committed to releasing an additional 80,000 home care packages over the next two years, at a cost of $6.5 billion. The intent is to address the current waiting list of people needing home care services, funded at an ...

The cleaning bill needed to remove the aged care “stain on Australians’ conscience” should total $10 billion a year, a leading think tank says. The Grattan Institute said the extra spending could be funded by some mix of a new ...

A $1.2 billion workforce compact between government, providers and unions hopes to turn around the poor wages and working conditions in Australian aged care. By Darragh O Keeffe and Natasha Egan. The federal government’s aged care reforms are a victory ...

Aged care funding must close the nurse wage gap, says union. Last week’s federal budget failed to include a number of key workforce issues which would help deliver quality care for older Australians, says the ANF Yvonne Chaperon, ANF assistant ...