The latest report into government services has found older Aussies are still facing long waits to receive aged care services, with wait times for high level home care packages at an average of 28 months. The Productivity Commission Report on ...

This year would have been an eventful one for the aged care sector even without COVID-19. With it, 2020 was a watershed moment. COVID-19 was, as the Aged Care Royal Commission put it, the greatest challenge the aged care sector ...

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 ...

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 ...

The coronavirus pandemic and aged care were two of the big ticket items in last night’s Budget. One of the aged care centrepieces was $1.6 billion for 23,000 additional home care packages. There was also $81 million for additional surge ...

Nearly $20 billion of government money goes into the provision of aged care each year, but where does it all go? and how is it spent? It seems like we forgot to ask because, as the royal commission is now ...

There is insufficient transparency about the use of funds in aged care, says a report on providers’ financial information. It found large differences in the way in which individual aged care providers structure their operations and the costs they incur ...

In a departure from the policies taken to the last federal election, Labor leader Anthony Albanese has come out in favour of minimum staffing levels in aged care.   Speaking to the National Press Club, Albanese decried the state of ...