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Australia’s aged care infrastructure shortfall is bigger than you think – and the clock is ticking
Wayne Belcher OAM has done the numbers. The sector needs a new nursing home every two days for the next 20 years – and most providers are too busy surviving to address it.
Support at Home is a complicated, opaque, inefficient scheme for all – part four: reform judged on impact not intent
Support at Home must be assessed by how it has impacted seniors and sector, home care general manager argues. Legislative intent is not enough, reform in the halls, homes and operational hoops is where the rubber hits the road.
Priority support at home processing announced for seniors with MND – sector reminds that system must work for all
Government announces priority processing for seniors with MND within Support at Home scheme. Advocates and industry leaders remind government that more work remains to be done for the hundreds of thousands that continue to wait a year for care.
Turned away before the door opens: how compliance fear is reshaping aged care admissions
Operations manager Mamata Adhikari has watched a quiet pattern form at the admissions desk: complex-needs residents being turned away. Not because facilities can’t care for them, but because staff are afraid of what comes next.
Support at Home is a complicated, opaque, inefficient scheme for all – part three: wide impacts, unprofessional systemic blunders
Within an era of major pushes to overhaul the aged care sector, leaders say the government system’s backend was less than lacklustre, impacting families and providers. As the wait-times for Support at Home packages and time to interact with government processes grows, providers wrestle with systems not fit for purpose.
What the Maggie Beer Foundation funding tells aged care leaders about money, governance and timing
The Maggie Beer Foundation’s $14.7M in government funding raises uncomfortable questions. Not just about one organisation, but about how reform dollars flow, and whether your governance is ready for the scrutiny that follows.
The global care crisis: What Germany’s new ‘childless tax’ tells us about aged care funding
Traditional funding models are fracturing under global demographic shifts. Germany’s new draft insurance overhaul offers Australian aged care leaders a window into another way to tackle our complex system.
Support at Home is a complicated, opaque, inefficient scheme for all – part two: devoid of financial and logical sense
The numbers are speaking loudly, SaH is proving to be costly and ineffective to run. The IAT algorithm too, in its opaque decision matrix, challenges the transparency and fairness recommended for a healthy and robust sector.
Support at Home is a complicated, opaque, inefficient scheme for all – part one: tropes of seniors and sector have no place in scheme mechanics
Tropes have never worked to guide and land policy. This is powerfully the case for Support at Home as its impacts are widely felt by boomers without wealth, and providers striving to survive as the landscape is skewed.
Shedding a light on palliative care – leaders have an opportunity to educate as well as manage
Expanding the conversation: Aged care leaders have an opportunity to support sector, seniors, and any with need, in navigating palliative care, expert says.
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