Unemployment of over-45s surges
Published 25 February 2020
The Australian Government is big on a job being the best form of welfare, but if you're too old to get on an electric bike to deliver for Uber Eats as a casual, the Government doesn't want to know you.
How is your Home Care Package going?
Published 25 February 2020
Getting care at home has become a very complicated business and it doesn't stop once you're finally in the system. Some startling stats about home care.
NSW buried under funeral reviews
Published 25 February 2020
Who pays for the mowing and the whipper-snippering once a cemetery is full? Five years since its creation, the NSW Cemeteries and Crematoria Board has made no headway solving the problem of who will pay for the maintenance of cemeteries once they reach capacity. [more]
Turning nursing homes into tourist traps
Published 28 January 2020
NURSING homes these days offer top-ups of standard services. Such top-ups vary across facilities and can be anything, such as toiletries, upgraded meal choices, massages and entertainment. Problem is in many cases residents are forced to buy these services and they are charged against their nursing home bonds. [more]
Home Care smoke and mirrors
Published 28 January 2020
THE home care waiting list continues to be laughably long and reductions are overwhelming due to people dying. Government action achieves marginal improvements only.
Reportable nursing home assaults up 83% in two years
Published 28 January 2020
THE notion of a reportable assault implies that there assaults which need not be reported. [more]
Aged Care Royal Commission raps Minister over the knuckles
Published 28 January 2020
THE Minister denies he is trying to privatise aged care assessment in Australia, saying he is merely putting it out to open tender and, oh, the Aged Care Royal Commission supports this. The Royal Commission once again begged to differ. [more]
Medical specialists’ website turns out a failure as predicted
Published 28 January 2020
ASKING medical specialists to be open about how much they charge is a reasonable demand. Expecting them to do so was always going to be pointless as a website developed for the purpose of fee comparison shows.
One in three advance care directives in nursing homes prove pointless
Published 28 January 2020
RESEARCH led by Advance Care Planning Australia found almost a third of Advance Care Directives (ACDs) audited in Australian residential aged care facilities to be invalid and unable to be used to guide treating doctors.
Funeral provider ripping off the dead
Published 28 January 2020
INVOCARE, one of the largest funeral providers in Australia, has taken the idea of being late for your own funeral to the next level and assumed that, even if you're not late, it will charge you a late fee!
Cheques are checking out
Published 28 January 2020
Cheques are checking out and king cash is thinking about abdication, but we're not quite there yet.
Social Security and Superannuation updates for 2020
Published 28 January 2020
HERE are some of the retirement income changes that will come in in 2020 with older people now on Newstart moving to the equally miserly and misleadingly named Jobseeker Allowance.
Downsides and upsides of downsizing
Published 28 January 2020
IT doesn't tell us anything anyone following this issue doesn't know, but the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) report looking into the issue of retirees downsizing from the family home into something smaller gives a good overview of the reasons people do and don't downsize. [more]
Government’s response to Royal Commission interim report won’t solve decades of Government aged care neglect
Published 26 November 2019
Successive Governments have neglected aged care and turned it into the mess it is today. The measures announced by the Prime Minister on 25 November 2019 only seem to take the waiting list for the Home Care Packages program seriously. [more]
BEGGING TO DIFFER: Aged Care Royal Commission Nails It
Published 22 November 2019
The Aged Care Royal Commission's interim Report Neglect has left absolutely no wriggle room for Government and industry to pretend that the aged care system is sound at heart. Yes, there is a systemic problem. In fact, there are many. [more]
Early action on home care
Published 22 November 2019
The Department of Health is taking early action to maximise the number of Home Care Packages.
Billions extra: the cost of good aged care for everyone
Published 22 November 2019
Aged care is in terrible shape, but how much would it cost to rehabilitate it? An estimate.
Gold Coast nursing home forced evacuation: report out
Published 22 November 2019
On 11 July 2019, sixty-nine residents at the Earle Haven nursing home on the Gold Coast were evacuated without warning due to a commercial dispute between the approved provider and the subcontractor actually providing the care.
Australia’s glorious retirement income system, really?
Published 22 November 2019
For ordinary Australians to have a chance of a retirement as adequately funded as retirements in The Netherlands and Denmark, the compulsory contribution rate needs to go up to 12 per cent pronto.
Newstart liquid asset test set to wring you out some more
Published 22 November 2019
Not only is Newstart set at a rate which can't sustain life, the Government wants to absolutely make sure that you've spent your last cent before giving it you.
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