The most significant budget for a generation was handed down this week. After years of debate about how we should go about caring for our elders, now and into the future, this budget was to be the answer. Much like ...

Australia’s aged-care system is in a state of a disaster. The aged care royal commission’s final report, released last month, is just the latest in a decades-long string of depressing reports and inquiries exposing horrific abuse, neglect, and systemic failures. ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said the government would detail much of its response to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety in its May federal budget, and with just under a week to its release, Aged Care ...

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese wants next week’s federal budget to ensure dementia management is “core business” for aged care, accusing the prime minister of “callously” neglecting the system. Mr Albanese will deliver a speech at the McKell Institute in Sydney on Thursday, ...

Making aged care homes more liveable for older Aussies will be a key feature of any changes to the sector, and as over half of all aged care residents have a dementia diagnosis, thinking outside the box when it comes ...

‘When too much sport is barely enough’ is a much loved satirical credo made famous by the Australian sports comedians Roy Slaven and HG Nelson as they send up obsessed Australian sports fanatics. Something eerily similar seems applicable to the eight ...

We asked a range of people, “Will aged care be way better in 10 years after the huge effort and expense the Royal Commission report is asking of all Australians?” Why won’t anyone say yes? Sure, they like bits of ...

Nearly a month on from the release of the final report from the aged care royal commission we are still largely in the dark on how the government might seek to change the sector going forward. Professor Jo Ibrahim, the ...

It has been several weeks since the federal government released the final report from the aged care royal commission and, with the government not set to announce its full response until the May budget, the sector has had time to ...

One issue the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety’s report hasn’t changed is that Australians still do not have visibility of whether care provided by a residential aged care facility is good, bad or indifferent. The publicly available ...