Allied health peaks are calling for specified time with residents as they are concerned aged care providers will cut specialists under the new residential care funding model. The Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC) kicked off in early October and ...
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$1.4 billion boost to strengthen aged care and hospitals against Covid
Healthcare minister Mark Butler announced last week that the government will fork out an additional $1.4 billion over the upcoming three months to prevent Covid outbreaks in hospitals and aged care homes. The Covid package that was due to expire ...
More »‘Left standing outside in the cold’ – allied health still waiting for appropriate funding
Amid the passing of one new aged care reform bill, the allied health sector is renewing its call to the federal government to adequately fund allied health. New regulations introduced in the bills include mandated 24/7 on-site nurses in residential ...
More »Report shows half of Australian aged care homes are losing money: what can be done? – podcast
Aged care homes continue to run at a financial loss despite raised home care packages and federal funding. According to the latest UTS Australia's Aged Care Report, providers are facing financial threats due to significant challenges. "Across the sector, the ...
More »A year on from the royal commission: govt talks progress, sector highlights ‘unfinished business’
The federal government has highlighted the reforms it says it has made a year after the handing down of the final report of the aged care royal commission, but the sector’s peak body is calling for increased funding and a ...
More »Billions of dollars unspent in home care, experts talk reform
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 ...
More »Demand for grief counselling surged during the pandemic and bereavement services expect the impacts are not yet over
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 ...
More »First of the 5 pillars: the government’s plans to improve the provision of aged care
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 ...
More »Aussies willing to pay more tax to fund quality aged care
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 ...
More »We need productivity gains in aged care… but what if the biggest gains make the least profit?
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 ...
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