The Aged Care Act 2024, which commenced on 1 November 2025, represents the most significant overhaul of aged care legislation ...

Anthony Albanese and his state counterparts have missed a “golden opportunity” to address the aged-care crisis and hospital bed block after $2bn in promised funding disappeared from a health deal ...

Michael Woods is Professor of Health Economics at the UTS Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation. He is Policy Advisor to the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative (UARC) and Chairs the ...

An Australian Productivity Commission report, released last month, shows that a growing number of elderly people across Australia are left waiting more than nine months to receive vital aged care ...

Home-care package waiting times for older Australians more than doubled between financial years 2023-24 and 2024-25, revealing the pressure population ageing is putting on the health and aged care ...

Respect, support and opportunities for feedback are vital to ensure Australians experience quality aged care, say Flinders University experts. The research, recently published in the journal ...

Thousands of aged care workers in Queensland and Western Australia (WA) walked off the job for up to five hours on Tuesday over low wages, longstanding staff shortages and dire conditions exacerbated ...

Click here to download an Easy-to-Read version of the report At that stage he couldn’t walk, only shuffle, he was very, very depressed, just crying all the time. And he couldn’t swallow… He would say, ...

The Weekly meets the people who want to see greater kindness in aged care. It was a wet Thursday afternoon in March. A southerly was blowing. Angela Finn closed her laptop and gazed out her front ...