After months of negotiations between the major parties, the government has announced its new plan for aged care. Here’s what it means for people in residential aged care and their families.

Today, more than 200,000 Australians live or stay in residential aged care on any given day. There are around 2,672 such facilities in Australia.

Home care is more attractive to both the private sector and not-for-profits: according to the taskforce report, “69% of residential aged care providers made an operating loss in 2021–22, an ...

About half the residents moving into residential aged care from July 1 are expected to contribute more over time, allowing growth in federal spending on aged care to fall from 5.7 per cent each ...

Just months after Yvonne Buters's parents entered residential aged care, both of them were gone. Her mother, Rose, died after just eight weeks in the facility, following repeated falls out of bed.

The wealthiest retirees will pay up to $13,400 a year extra for residential care under a user-pays overhaul of the aged care funding system that was agreed by the government and opposition to help ...

The lifetime cap for means-tested fees across home care and residential aged care is currently $82,347. Post-reform, the cap will rise to $130,000 – a $47,653 increase.

Less than 3% of people with mental health conditions living in Australian residential aged care facilities accessed government-subsidised mental health services, a new analysis from Flinders ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Guides. Followed categories will be added to My News. Rosemary Seam has lived in residential aged care in regional NSW for five years. The 85-year-old said she ...

A patient at a residential aged care home in Adelaide's north-east has died while waiting around five hours for an ambulance, the state's ambulance union says. Ambulance Employees Association (AEA ...

Objective The effect of fall prevention exercise programmes in residential aged care (RAC) is uncertain. This paper reports on an intervention component analysis (ICA) of randomised controlled trials ...