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25/11/2025

My Choice by Lite n’ Easy offers dietitian-designed, high-protein meals delivered to the door. Under Support at Home funding, your clients can access up to 70% of the cost. Learn how to include it in your care plans.

25/11/2025

Aged care homes are swapping squeaky wheels for miniature medication vending machines, delivering meds in a flash. Discover how these clever devices are boosting resident autonomy and freeing up staff for real care.

25/11/2025

A new independent review has uncovered major flaws in how the NDIA set its latest physiotherapy price cuts. The modelling doesn’t stack up, the data is thin, and the gap between real market rates and the NDIS cap is now impossible to ignore.

Physios are withdrawing. Access is shrinking. Participants are carrying the cost of a decision built on bad assumptions.

https://hellocare.com.au/new-review-exposes-ndis-pricing-mess-the-numbers-dont-add-up/

24/11/2025

The transition from HCP to the new Support at Home system was meant to streamline care, but it’s already creating chaos. Workers face long waits for invoices to be processed as providers scramble with backlogs.

24/11/2025

A new three-minute test could revolutionise early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. The Fastball EEG test measures your brain’s response to images, flagging memory issues faster and less invasively than traditional methods.

24/11/2025

Victoria is Australia’s worst state for elder abuse, with family members causing most harm, but stranger attacks are increasing too.

21/11/2025

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 financial hardship.

21/11/2025

Childhood dementia affects more than 2,300 children in Australia. For Megan Maack, who is raising two children with the condition, the daily struggle is both a fight for her family and a call for urgent change in how society responds.

21/11/2025

An 87-year-old man with dementia was pepper-sprayed inside a Sydney aged care home. After Clare Nowland’s death after being tasered by police, how are we still here? Where is the reform we were promised?

An 87-year-old man with dementia was pepper sprayed inside a Sydney aged care home. After Clare Nowland’s death after being tasered by police, how are we still here? Where is the reform we were promised?

21/11/2025

A new Human Rights Commission report lays it out clearly. Ageism in healthcare is putting older Australians at risk. People are being dismissed, talked over and pushed through a system that treats age as a burden, not a clinical factor.

The consequences are real: poorer outcomes, slower recovery and earlier death. This is a warning the system can’t ignore.

A major Human Rights Commission report reveals widespread ageism in Australia’s health system, with older people dismissed, excluded and put at risk of poorer outcomes, slower recovery and earlier death.

20/11/2025

A major warning has been issued: billions in NDIS, aged care and childcare funding are being siphoned offshore through foreign owned providers. That money should be improving care, building the workforce and supporting Australians.

Spinal Life Australia says the situation is “unsustainable” and “unacceptable,” and is calling for urgent action to keep taxpayer dollars in Australia’s care system.

A leading disability advocate warns billions in taxpayer funded NDIS, aged care and childcare spending is being siphoned offshore by foreign owned providers, undermining care quality, weakening the workforce and threatening the long term sustainability of Australia’s care economy.

20/11/2025

“We’re doing the paperwork, but residents are still missing out.” A Director of Nursing has spoken out about the growing issue of “compliance theatre” in aged care, where ticking boxes matters more than delivering real care.