Hal Swerissen has received funding from NHMRC and ARC funding in relation to aged care, primary care and public health. He is Deputy Chair of the Bendigo Kangan Institute and a member of the ...

While it may be too late for the 5000 Australians who have died on the waitlist in the meantime, it does quicken the timeline on delivery of the 83,000 packages promised as part of the federal ...

Federal government reforms to aged care are just months away and there's growing anxiety among some older Australians about what it will mean for them financially, as co-payments for home care are ...

Michael Woods receives funding from government agencies to conduct research on aged care policy. Jin Sug Yang, Louise Malady, and Nelson Ma do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

None of the packages released in the 2024-25 financial year were this 60 per cent value “interim” package but this shot up to 93 per cent in the packages released since November, the Health and Aged ...

A growing number of Australians want to stay at home rather than moving to a residential aged care facility when they need extra support. But availability of home care packages has slipped far behind ...

Price hikes for older people accessing support at home could mean their aged care packages will not stretch as far. Despite a "no worse off" guarantee, advocates say the actual amount of care someone ...

For the past 15 years, Kevin and Sue Dawson have called a neat little cottage home. Nestled next to the Loddon River, just west of Maldon in central Victoria, the idyllic township of Baringhup is ...

As a journalist, there's a sure-fire way to know when you've hit a nerve in Australian society. It's a media litmus test, albeit entirely unscientific. Put simply, it's the number of emails you ...