How do you find out if Windows 11, the latest instalment of Microsoft’s popular computer software, will be useable on your computer? Windows 11 won’t be useable on some computers as young as three years old. Where does this leave people with older computers?
The Greater Sydney lockdown has caused the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission to once again close up shop and cease inspections of nursing homes.
The chance of developing complications from an Astra Zeneca COVID-19 jab is about one in a million. If people had a one-in-a-million chance of dying on any day, 999,999 out of one million people would live to be 1,000 years old. There's no excuse not to have the jab.
If the NSW annual property tax proposal isn’t dead, it’s not breathing very well. In fact, this property tax proposal probably wouldn’t voom if you put 10,000 volts through it.
Home Care Packages are great but do not take into account that they also need to pay for expensive one-off items. What can be done about that?
The 3G network will soon be shut down. This will mean certain older mobile phones will no longer work. Now is the perfect time to find out if your phone will still be functional when the 3G network is switched off.
The Centrelink culture of making demands, not requests, and backing these demands up by heavy-handed threats has now been extended to Age Pensioners through the new income reporting system.
Important changes to super as part of the Your Future Your Super reforms, but concerns remain.
Lack of funding is regarded by many for the poor state of regional, rural and remote healthcare, but the main cause may lie elsewhere.
One-third of a measly one per cent is all you get if you put your hard-earned in an annual term deposit. Isn’t there anything anywhere that pays more?
Plans to tackle housing affordability were nowhere to be seen in the latest NSW budget meanwhile the NSW Government pockets a cool $9 billion from stamp duty revenue as the housing market boom continues.
A new law requires energy retailers to pass on savings to customers. With energy wholesale costs falling, energy savings are expected to flow on to households in late 2021.
NSW is the only state requiring a registered nurse to be on site 24/7 in all NSW nursing homes. The NSW Government wants to get rid of this provision.
Getting older may mean getting more vulnerable and there are some who will exploit that vulnerability.
Is it here to stay? The NSW Regional Seniors Travel Card will be funded for another two years!
New Home Care Packages continue to be announced by the Federal Government to eliminate the long waiting list. However, will a new home support program shift the problem rather than fix it once and for all?
Proof of COVID-19 vaccination status is now available in Australia. However, where and how it can or must be used has not yet been revealed.
A NSW Government report reveals what NSW will look like in 2061. What is needed to address the current housing situation?
Changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule mean that for many MBS items the MBS fee will go up or down. This will then change the gap between the MBS fee and the medical specialist’s fee. Who will be affected?
The Australian Government and the federal Department of Health have copped heavy criticism over the nursing home vaccine roll-out. Is it justified?