Aged Care Caps Arrive in 100 Days: Can They Deliver What Money Alone Cannot As Support at Home price caps approach 1 July 2026, 39% price increases in the transition year raise questions about whether Australia's aged care reforms can balance affordability, quality, and provider sustainability.

Aged Care Caps Arrive in 100 Days: Can They Deliver What Money Alone Cannot

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Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Support at Home Aged Care Services 2027–28 - Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority -... Find and participate in activities run by Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority

🚨 The Independent Health & Aged Care Pricing Authority is doing public consultations on pricing for the SUPPORT AT HOME Program. Have your say! Submission close on Friday 10 April.🚨

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"Square peg, round hole": Why program design makes CHSP-Support at Home merger impossible - Hellocare Is aged care reform heading in the wrong direction? Professor Kathy Eagar says folding CHSP into Support at Home ignores fundamental differences in funding design and risks harming 850,000 older Austr...

Prevention is always best. Early, affordable support at home prevents elderly ppl having early hospital or nursing home entry BUT the Albanese govt reforms have practically obliterated prevention. It will cost govt more in the long run. #AgedCareReform #ElderAbuse

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The Aged Care Act's ‘Improved rights’ are a myth to deflect from crushing fees - Hellocare Two weeks after the new Aged Care Act took effect, seniors are asking: what rights have actually improved? The answer is almost none, while new co-payments and soaring fees are forcing families into f...

The rhetoric from the Government, as it rolled out the new Aged care, was all about giving elderly people more "rights". In reality, the only "right" seems to be the right to pay more for the same services. #AgedCareReform #Auspol

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Albanese campaigned on fixing aged care, then sold out seniors for political survival - Hellocare The new Aged Care Act came into effect over the weekend, willfully ignoring the Royal Commission’s most important recommendation: a levy to fairly fund care. Labor avoided it to dodge political backla...

Politics wins out over well-being yet again. 👇
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What are the main things needed to remain safe & healthy at home? Personal hygiene care, nutrition & cleaning. What does the new system make unaffordable? Exactly those, so I'll end up in hospital, costing govt much more. Meanwhile profiteers make even bigger profit. 👇 #Auspol #AgedCareReform

Paying $50 for help showering is wrong for so many reasons, but the proposed $100 hourly fee for basic personal care is a taxpayer rip-off.

A public model could cut fees & save billions going into an outsourced, privatised system bloated with inefficiencies.

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Unspoken, Unheard, Unmet: Improving Access to Preventative Health Care through Better Conversations about Care. Most older Australians will experience hearing, vision, speech, language, or cognitive changes that impact their ability to communicate. Over time, they will need support to express their care needs, ...

Ethics application approved today! 🎉🥳🍾

Can wait to hear about people’s experiences of #codesign in the Conversations About Care project: shrs.uq.edu.au/project/conv...

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