The federal government has rejected accusations it limited access to medication and walking assistance in its updated Home Care Package manual. On Tuesday, The Daily Telegraph reported that the government's new guidelines, which were issued on January 13, had slashed home care support for ...

Unawareness among older Australians around accessing home care packages may lead to people passing up funding that would otherwise allow them to live at home longer, an aged care specialist has said. The government has started the rollout of an ...

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 ...

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 government data shows that the average wait time for home care has fallen and more people have access to home care packages than this time last year. The home care packages program data report for the period January to ...