A contested component of the new system is that older Australians will pay for more of their non-clinical care, such as showering, cleaning and meal delivery.

But the government rejected that idea and has argued that residents should pay more if they can afford to do so. The government currently pays about $4 for every $1 paid by aged care residents, and ...

A South Australian government aged care home, which looks after 23 people with dementia or complex disabilities, ...

In a national effort to make medicines safer for older Australians, the University of South Australia is calling for aged care providers and pharmacists to join a new pilot study to assess medication ...

Self-funded retirees who “did the right thing” and saved all their lives are being severely punished by the federal government’s new aged care reforms, according to furious Queenslanders.

Anna Romanik worked and paid taxes her whole life, but now the 80-year-old dementia patient has been rejected by 21 aged care ...

The Senate has voted to establish two further Senate inquiries into Labor’s aged care reforms, amid concerns that the new Act which came into force on Saturday will fail older Australians.

Labor is moving to encourage superannuation funds to invest in the aged care sector to help fund huge growth in demand for services due to an ageing population, amid warnings an eight-fold increase of ...