As part of the recent aged care reforms, older Australians will be eligible for $25,000 worth of palliative support when they have three months or less left to live.
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There is not enough money for New Zealand’s aged care sector – and the demand is only going to rise. The government needs to look at Australia for ways to ensure access for all.
Overall, the government’s investment in home care is a positive step toward improving quality of life for older Australians. But these reforms will face some challenges.
The government’s changes to the NDIS and it’s endorsement of aged care reforms, Peter Dutton is calculating it’s easier for Labor than the Coalition to find big savings that produce serious “losers”
After months of negotiations between the major parties, the government has announced its new plan for aged care. Here’s what it means for people in residential aged care and their families.
Self-funded retirees and many part pensioners will pay more for their aged care under the government’s reform package, endorsed by the opposition and announced on Thursday.
Some moral frameworks tell us lying is bad. But what if telling someone with dementia the truth could cause them trauma or other harms?
Rural and remote aged care facilities find it hard to attract and retain staff, and face high costs and ongoing losses. Yet levels of care and resident satisfaction exceed that of homes in cities.
We found 40% of older Australians living in aged care homes were malnourished. Malnutrition in older people is associated with poorer health overall.
Aged care providers can’t find staff and a crisis is brewing. If the problem isn’t fixed, there are serious risks to quality and access to services for older people who need support.
Making meals more appealing and giving aged care residents more choice, sounds simple enough. But you need the right ingredients to make it work on a wide scale.
Many residents in Australia’s aged care homes are not receiving the level of care they need and are entitled to, a new analysis has found.
The federal government caps the number of home care packages it provides. When demand exceeds supply, waiting times blow out.
Lives that matter: new novels by Trish Bolton and Graeme Nash defy the stereotypes of older women in fiction.
Most of the indirect care workforce will only see a pay rise between 3% and 7%.
A new review looks at whether psychological therapies, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, are an effective way to treat older people in aged care with symptoms of depression.
While wage rises for aged care workers are welcome, this measure alone will not fix all workforce problems in the sector.
Rather than bold reforms that will safeguard Australians’ aged care services into the future, the taskforce largely recommends tidying up and keeping the status quo. And getting users to pay more.
A government-instituted Aged Care Taskforce has recommended older Australians should pay more of the cost of their aged care, while steering clear of politically fraught options.
Australia’s aged care system is undergoing significant change, but is still governed by an act more than 25 years old. Can the government meet its mid-year deadline for the next round of reforms?
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Aged Care Medical Research Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University
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Professor in Ageing and Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
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Head of Clinical Services, Dementia Support Australia, & Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Nursing Aged Care (Dementia), University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Dementia Care, University of Tasmania
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Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Director of IMPACCT, Professor of Palliative Nursing, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Ageing and Public Policy, Australian National University
