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Aged care

July 2024

  • Gwenda Darling

    ‘I just want to be able to get my vibrator out’: the fight for sexual rights in aged care homes

  • Ranjana Srivastava

    As my patient was dying, this is how we failed her

    Ranjana Srivastava

June 2024

  • Ranjana Srivastava

    The ill treatment of my friend’s 90-year-old mother shows how broken our aged care system is

    Ranjana Srivastava
    The desperate search for affordable care and a hospital’s carelessness demonstrate that Australia’s healthcare system is failing many elders

May 2024

  • Rafqa Touma, Jonathan Barrett, Bridie Jabour and Peter Hannam

    From gen Z to boomers: what the 2024 budget means for your generation

    Millennials and gen Z will take comfort from changes to student loans and healthcare while boomers will be saving on medicines, pensions and aged care
  • A composite image featuring treasurer Jim Chalmers

    Australian federal budget 2024: what we know so far and what to expect

    Treasurer Jim Chalmers has promised more cost-of-living relief in his 14 May budget as well as spending for students and health
  • Glenda Parkin siting in a field of flowers smiling

    Australia’s health watchdog warns patients are being overprescribed psychotropic medication

    Health watchdog warns Australians are being overprescribed psychotropic medicine

April 2024

  • aged care worker with elderly person

    Many aged care workers may wait until 2026 for full pay increase as Albanese government requests phased implementation

    Commonwealth requests Fair Work Commission phase in full 23% increase over two years to prevent workforce shortages elsewhere

March 2024

  • Health Services Union staff and members celebrate

    Aged care workers to get 23% average pay rise as union heralds move as ‘one of the best outcomes’ ever achieved

  • An aerial view of Burwood in Sydney’s inner west.

    Australia news live
    NSW government knocks back Inner West Council demerger proposal – as it happened

  • older person's hands

    Australia’s aged care fees are under review. Will wealthy people have to pay more?

  • Close-up of woman holding senior man's hand leaning on cane<br>deutschland,mannheim,lifestyle,senior,pflege

    A Medicare-style levy would guarantee all Australians the right to aged care when we need it

    Sarah Holland-Batt

  • Wealthy older Australians should pay more for aged care services, expert panel recommends

  • Dad is known within our family as ‘the magic man’. But when it came to aged care, we faced an agonising choice

    Tracey Spicer

February 2024

  • Illustration of a woman standing outside a home that is being packed up home

    When my parents went into aged care, I helped clear out my childhood home – and realised I need to live lighter

    Margaret McNally
  • Minister for aged care Anika Wells during Question Time

    New online tool reveals how much Australian aged care homes spend on food, care and services

  • Graham and Bruce from the Ettalong men’s shed in NSW.

    Senior suicide: the silent generation speaking up on a quiet killer

  • Old man's hands

    More than 1,000 cases of neglect reported each month in Australia’s aged care homes

January 2024

  • Janet Anderson

    One-third of outsourced Australian aged care home inspections rejected as substandard

    Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission accused of ‘unacceptable ignorance’ about standard of audits carried out by consultants
  • Nurse Leslie Cunich gives a resident's hand a squeeze after helping her drink at a care facility

    Aged care residents only receiving appropriate care half the time, world-first Australian study finds

    Research finds residents receive care in line with guidelines 53.2% of the time on average and just 12% of the time for depression
  • A woman in a wheelchair looking down a long dark corridor of an aged care home

    Five stars awarded to Australian aged care homes failing safety and care standards

    Inflated compliance ratings spark concerns providers are being prioritised and families misled
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