Digital life after death
Published 26 June 2019
WHAT happens to our online accounts when we die? With so much information and transaction being online these days, you want to find out.
Class action to claim back lost pension entitlements
Published 11 June 2019
An Age Pensioner has been successful in claiming back substantial pension reductions after Centrelink incorrectly assessed an inheritance received by them.
RBA cut: Government must lower pension deeming rates now!
Published 4 June 2019
With one interest rate now announced and another one or two coming, it’s time the Government reviewed the deeming rates used to assess the income pensioners get from their bank accounts and term deposits.
Bupa Willoughby: why mandatory staff ratios are the only way
Published 28 May 2019
Bupa Willoughby's evidence at the Royal Commission into Aged Care is proof that putting nursing homes in charge of setting their own staffing ratios represents a severe case of handing over the keys to the blood bank to Count Dracula. [more]
ACCC takes BUPA to court
Published 28 May 2019
THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking Bupa Aged Care Australia Pty Ltd to court. That's something the spick-spanking new Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission can't do.
Legislation for publication of aged care staff ratios reintroduced
Published 28 May 2019
RE-ELECTED South Australian Federal Member, Rebekha Sharkie will reintroduce her Staffing Ratio Disclosure Bill. The Bill will require aged care facilities to publish staff-to-resident ratios on the My Aged Care website.
Specialists still free to charge fees as they please
Published 28 May 2019
Medical specialists can and do charge like wounded bulls. Beware those without health insurance. The Government is throwing a price-comparison website at the problem. Will this make specialist medical care more affordable?
Will I get Alzheimer’s?
Published 28 May 2019
Now there's a question. Wouldn't it be nice if by just playing a game on your mobile you could settle that question once and for all? Sea Quest Hero promises to do just that, but how realistic is this claim?
Are mobility scooters for daredevils only?
Published 28 May 2019
Mobility scooters look as benign as dodge'm cars, but overseas evidence suggests they are potential death traps.
Death waits for no one except IPART
Published 28 May 2019
The NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) is looking at the pricing of interment and cremation when what matters to people who buy funerals is in the overall pricing of funerals.
Pensioner cost of living up more than rest of country
Published 28 May 2019
FROM 1 January to 31 March 2019 the cost of living for Age Pensioners went up by a third of a per cent. Compensation in the form of indexation will not occur until September 2019.
Can Australia afford the boomers?
Published 28 May 2019
CAN Australia afford babyboomer Australians? That‘s the question the Parliamentary Budget Office, or PBO, tries to answer in a report recently published.
Bring out the blunt instrument!
Published 23 April 2019
THE Aged Care Royal Commission heard evidence from a number of systemic advocacy organisations. Counsel Assisting quizzed them on nursing home staffing. Apart from CPSA, their response was that mandatory staff-to-residents ratios in nursing homes would be too hard, too blunt an instrument. [more]
Aged Care Charter of Rights, a beautiful fantasy
Published 23 April 2019
THERE has been a lot to do about the new aged care Charter of Rights. This new Charter will cover people receiving care both in nursing homes and at home. Each care recipient must be given a copy of the Charter of Rights and this copy must be personally signed by the aged care provider who provides them with care. [more]
16,000 died waiting for a Home Care Package: Royal Commission
Published 23 April 2019
THE Aged Care Royal Commission has finished its second hearing. This hearing was about aged care at home, which means Home Care Packages (HCPs) and the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP). The Commission examined My Aged Care, the HCP waiting list, HCP fees and charges and the home care workforce. [more]
Energy: One-offs don’t solve entrenched problems
Published 23 April 2019
THE Australian Government announced a one-off Energy Assistance Payment to all pension recipients living in Australia on 2 April 2019.
Over-55s on Newstart: Career Transition Assistance
Published 23 April 2019
THE April Budget ignored them and the Response to the Budget ignored them. During the election campaign neither the Opposition nor the Government will want to talk about them.
The painful consequences of no universal dental care
Published 23 April 2019
EXISTING Australian public dental schemes are inadequate, uncoordinated, and inequitable. Unlike what happens when you visit your GP, Medicare does not pick up any of the bill for a trip to the dentist, leaving Australians largely out of pocket. [more]
My Health Record and Advance Care Directives
Published 23 April 2019
THE decision to sign up for My Health Record is a personal one, but if you have decided to sign up, you should make sure that your Advance Care Directive is included in your My Health Record.
NSW State Election 2019: now for keeping those promises
Published 23 April 2019
The NSW Liberal/National Coalition Government was returned on 29 March 2019 for a third four-year term. During the election campaign, the NSW Government made a number of promises directly affecting the lives of older people in NSW. [more]
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