The 'grotesque policy cock-up' stopping downsizers freeing up their homes
By Jeremy Story Carter and Catherine McAloon
In regional Australia, where baby boomers are being told to downsize to free up homes, country communities are having to become developers to build appropriate-sized housing.
#HousingPolicy #OlderPeople #AgedCare #CommunityOrganisations #JeremyStoryCarter #CatherineMcAloon
Older Australians face long wait to be assessed for aged care
When Peter O’Shannessy returned to his home from the hospital in January, he was unable to speak or…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #abcinvestigations #agedcare #agedcareassessments #aspire4life #AU #Australia #myagedcare
https://www.newsbeep.com/230299/
The queue older Australians must join before the queue for home care
By Anne Connolly and Kirsten Robb
Families and insiders say the system to assess people for aged care is in crisis, with 116,000 people on the waiting list. Once approved, they join the queue to get a home care package, which stands at more than 120,000.
#AgedCare #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #OlderPeople #HealthPolicy #AnneConnolly #KirstenRobb
Aged care test overlooks Stolen Generations survivors, advocates say
By Tahnee Jash
"Discriminatory" changes to means testing in aged care could leave Stolen Generations survivors having to pay high fees for basic everyday services.
Why talking about aged care in multicultural families can be hard
By Gillian Aeria and Lachlan Bennett
Discussing aged care in culturally diverse families can be a sensitive subject. Here's how some approached the conversation.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/talking-about-aged-care-in-multicultural-families/105938294
#AgedCare #Immigration #Multiculturalism #OlderPeople #Family #GillianAeria #LachlanBennett
What will aged care fee changes mean for you? Here are the details
By Tom Crowley
A new fee structure for aged care takes effect today. Find out what it will mean for you.
#AgedCare #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #TomCrowley
Aged care employee charged after allegedly stealing debit card from 104yo
Detectives started investigating after another employee at the aged care facility made a report on behalf of the 104-year-old.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-30/qld-woman-charged-aged-care-facility-stealing/105950332
Seniors risk losing some at-home services in Support at Home roll out
By Evelyn Manfield
With major changes to the aged care system looming this week, price hikes for older people accessing support at home could mean their aged care packages will not stretch as far.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-30/older-people-risk-losing-some-at-home-services/105949520
#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #AgedCare #OlderPeople #EvelynManfield
Council awards car park site to Indigenous aged care provider for $1 fee
By Nakari Thorpe
City of Sydney Council has awarded a car park site in Redfern worth $20 million to Wyanga Aboriginal Aged Care for the nominal fee of $1.
Family 'wants answers' after river death of patient with dementia
By Lily Plass and James Paras
The family of a 73-year-old man, who was found dead in a river after leaving a New South Wales hospital, believes his death was preventable and that it has been let down by the medical system.
#Drownings #AlzheimersandDementia #AgedCare #HealthcareFacilities #RegionalCommunities #OlderPeople #LilyPlass #JamesParas
'Afterthoughts': Concerns aged care reforms do not tackle service gaps
By Xiaoning Mo
A new Aged Care Act comes into effect in November, but some question if the act will meaningfully address service gaps for culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
"Residents are suffering falls because care givers are unable to give them the support they need. They’re being put in continence products because they don’t have time to toilet them and they have infections because nurses are too busy to change their dressings and facilities are buying cheap wound products, and even cutting them in half, to save money,"
so sad so very very sad been going on for a long time. No one has stood up and said :"Enough"
ok so a lot of people have but those with the power to fix it...? not there
“What workers experience in rest homes and other #agedcare facilities has been revealed in a new report based on 80 in-depth interviews - but the Seniors Minister says… the sector is not in crisis” 🙄
#nzpol #nzno #nurses
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360850116/missed-care-and-outright-neglect-crisis-our-aged-care-homes-revealed
So, apparently, in 2025 #agedcare facilities are happy to let people die in screaming pain, because god forbid they should provide actual pain relief.
I completed a Masters in pain management in 2000. I lectured about pain control in older people. My thesis was on nurses' knowledge of pain management. It seems not only have things not improved, they've become much, much worse.
Has the SA government learned from the Oakden aged care scandal?
By Leah MacLennan and Angelique Donnellan
An audit has revealed an Adelaide aged care facility was inappropriately using restraints on patients, raising the question of whether the state government has learned from the Oakden aged care scandal in 2017.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-09/sa-northgate-analysis/105867062
#AgedCare #RoyalCommissions #LeahMacLennan #AngeliqueDonnellan
Family donates $1.7m to reshape dementia care in Victorian town
By Peter Quattrocelli
An aged care facility in western Victoria receives an "unprecedented" donation that will allow it to enhance the lives of residents living with dementia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-09/family-donation-to-reshape-dementia-care-in-stawell/105865792
CEDA (Age) looking to extract aged care workers from every country on the planet. Dumb. Expand the humanitarian refugee intake dramatically and train them up as aged care workers. The training does not take long. #auspol #agedcare #immigration
