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The real CHSP challenge isn’t policy; it’s organisational readiness
The Senate has delayed a policy decision for the Commonwealth Home Support Programme, but it hasn’t delayed demographic reality. Demand continues to grow, and organisational capability needs to grow with it.
Support at Home’s design flaws are now a governance problem, outgoing watchdog tells Senate
Outgoing Inspector-General Natalie Siegel-Brown tells a Senate inquiry that Support at Home’s assessment algorithm, means-testing design and co-payment structure are driving older Australians into costlier residential care. And warns the budget isn’t the problem – the administration is.
The leadership test hiding inside aged care’s consolidation wave
When 642 providers have become the new normal and consolidation still accelerating, the question boards should be asking isn’t whether consolidation can be stopped. It’s whether the leadership inside their organisation is built for what comes next.
Your clients own the house. They can’t fund the care.
Dianne Shepherd has spent 20 years watching older Australians run out of cash while sitting on million-dollar homes. She says Support at Home doesn’t close the funding gap and that aged care providers are building care plans on assumptions that won’t hold.
Support at Home is failing regional Australia – one hour at a time
The top home care package funds 20 hours a week. Advanced dementia needs round-the-clock supervision. What happens in the remaining 148 hours? Rosie Fitzgerald can tell you.
Ambulances on ramps and older Australians on waitlists: Daniel Gannon wants governments to connect the dots
Retirement villages aren’t a lifestyle product: they’re health infrastructure. Daniel Gannon makes the case that without planning reform and supply investment, the pipeline crisis feeding hospital strain and aged care pressure will only deepen.
A wealth of opportunity, a shortage of supply: Tim Lawless on aged care housing
Tim Lawless says Australia’s ageing population is creating unprecedented demand for retirement living – but delivering enough homes may be the sector’s greatest challenge.
‘It takes a village within the village’: how retirement communities are rethinking dementia
HammondCare’s Marie Alford shares what retirement village operators should be doing now to support residents living with dementia – from wayfinding to wellbeing coordinators to community partnerships.
Full, but can’t build fast enough: sector leaders deliver a frank view from the top
Full villages, growing waitlists, and residents who can’t access aged care. The sector’s top operators are navigating simultaneous pressure on every front — and the leaders who’ll survive it are the ones willing to have honest conversations now.
Home care technology is failing – and providers are paying the price
More than 315 home care leaders have spoken. Their systems still don’t work. New Enkindle data shows 64% of providers can’t rely on technology to run basic operations under Support at Home.
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