Staff ratios and staff skills and capabilities directly affect the quality of care. Yet one-third of the personal care staff in residential care facilities lack formal qualifications in aged care ...

Aged care users will pay more of their share for cooking and cleaning. Lizelle Lotter/Shutterstock Making the system fairer The taskforce thought it was unfair people in residential care were ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finally, for both in-home care and residential care there are annual and lifetime caps on how much an individual can be charged due to means testing — a user cannot be charged more than $32,781. ...

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 ...

It’s big money. Taxpayers ploughed $35bn into aged care in 2023-24, making it one of the federal government’s five biggest spending programs.