Billions of dollars in unspent funds and workforce constraints are the largest gaps plaguing the government's new home care system, an expert panel has heard. Aged care advocates and researchers gathered at the third Macquarie Aged Care Policy Forum to ...

When Angie Wraight’s husband of 38 years died in her arms during the pandemic last year, she felt lost. A “wonderful” palliative care team had helped keep her husband Brian comfortable through his cancer battle, but when the rush of nurses and ...

Now that the Royal Commission has finished and the worst of the pandemic and vaccination problems seem to be over, we can all take a deep breath and think again about the changes to the aged care system planned over ...

New research has found that 61 per cent of Australians would be willing to pay higher taxes to fund better quality aged care services. Funding has long been a contentious issue in the aged care sector. The government's response to ...

The Intergenerational Report 2021 called for productivity gains in all sectors as the most significant way of securing the economic future of Australia. So, would this also apply to aged care? Well, there’s spiralling demand with a shrinking, poorly paid ...

In early June the NSW Legislative Committee published its final inquiry into the issue of chronic understaffing in aged care facilities. It found, as did the royal commission, that mandated staffing ratios and more registered nurses were urgently required. When ...

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 ...

The federal budget, which will be handed down on Tuesday, is expected to include a 10 billion package for aged care, which aged care minister Greg Hunt described as "the largest in Australian history". Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has told the ...

The federal government will spend more than half a billion dollars on aged care. Following the release of the aged care royal commission’s interim report – which identified boosting the number of home care packages, a response to over-reliance on ...

Aged care minister Richard Colbeck has announced a bump in funding for entry-level home support, but aged care providers says the sector is being drip fed. Colbeck said $150 million in government funding will be spent over three years to enable more ...