Ageing Australia CEO Tom Symondson highlighted the urgent need to improve access to care for older Australians, during today’s public hearing of the Senate Inquiry into Support at Home.
It’s time for aged care workers around the country to strike a pose, because Ageing Australia wants to showcase photographs of the best in our sector. So many people contribute in such positive and amazing ways to the care of older Australians that Ageing Australia is holding a Humans of Aged Care photo competition.
Aged care providers across Australia have cancelled plans for over 2,000 new beds, and counting, as a direct result of the Federal Government’s decision to implement a real terms cut in residential care funding earlier this week.
Ageing Australia, the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) are calling on Governments at all levels to head off a looming national crisis in aged care capacity, which is spilling over to hospitals and community-based healthcare.
Ageing Australia has labelled changes to the 2026-27 Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC) price as “unacceptable”, saying aged care providers won’t be able to make ends meet, let alone build new beds as a result.
Ageing Australia congratulates the Albanese Government for listening to aged care providers, in today’s decision to extend the Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) as a separate entity for a further two years until 30 June 2029.
Ageing Australia is calling on the Federal Government to urgently act to reduce Support at Home wait times, provide packages that better reflect the full cost of older people’s needs, and ensure human oversight is at the core of assessments.
From a woman who escaped pirates leaving Vietnam after the war to a team fighting for people with dementia, Ageing Australia is proud to announce the winners of the 2026 You are ACE! Awards.
Ageing Australia invites all Australians to celebrate the incredible contributions of aged care workers across the country for Aged Care Employee Day, today Friday 7 August.
