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 ...
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Budget 2021: what they said
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 ...
More »Federal budget is the time to stop talking about aged care and start fixing it
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. ...
More »What one aged care message should government hear ahead of its next budget?
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 ...
More »Albanese accuses Prime Minister of ‘callous neglect’ on aged care, demands budget focus on helping dementia
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, ...
More »Group Homes Australia chief exec talks small scale living: podcast
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 ...
More »When too much is barely enough: opinion
‘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 ...
More »The Aged Care Royal Commission report: what the Empire wants us to do and what we should really do
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 ...
More »Does the health department deserve a second chance to fix aged care?
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 ...
More »What older Aussies need, deserve and expect should drive reform: LASA
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 ...
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