Aged Care

As many medically well patients wait in public hospitals for a spot in aged care, their bodies begin to deteriorate at a rate experts believe is preventable.

A coronial inquest will investigate whether an aged care facility in Adelaide's inner north appropriately treated the bed sores a 79-year-old man with dementia developed in the lead-up to his death.

Amid ongoing discussion about Australia's immigration intake and migration policies, regional residents say many industries in the bush cannot survive without overseas workers.

It's going to get much harder to find an available aged care bed in WA, a new report finds, with a "substantial and time-critical shortfall" predicted.

Some advocates say the government's decision to delay price caps for at-home aged care services is a "burden".

Support at Home program price caps, due to start in July, have been deferred indefinitely. Hundreds of thousands of older people rely on the federal government program, which provides help with cleaning, showering and clinical supports like nursing.

The federal government plans to reduce private health insurance rebates for older Australians, a move one advocate fears could "tip many over the edge".

Family of Clare Nowland have addressed a coroners court on the final day of an inquest examining her death.

A senior NSW Ambulance officer tells the Clare Nowland inquest that emergency services could have taken more time responding to the 95-year-old's dementia-related aggression. 

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has conceded the state of aged care in Australia "is not good enough" after a new report revealed people are waiting an average of a year for services.

Despite it being an intergenerational budget, specific parts of the economic strategy will impact older Australians.

Three years after the great-grandmother was tasered by a police officer in her aged care home, an inquest has heard from police and ambulance officers who were at the scene.

The number of aged care patients stuck in hospitals has jumped by 35 per cent in less than a year, fuelling fresh demands for the federal government to stem the crisis.

In an in-depth interview ahead of the inquest into his mother Clare Nowland's nursing home death, Mick says the family wants changes that will prevent another tragedy.

The federal government argues the move will help re-establish fairness across the generations. 

Health Minister Mark Butler has unveiled the government's plan to curb the ballooning growth of the NDIS and save the budget a projected $35 billion over four years.

The decision to scrap the plan to charge older Australians $50/hour for showers was made after months of sustained criticism, including warnings that people were forgoing other care to afford the service.

Artificial intelligence-enabled robot companions, personal behaviour monitors and pain management apps could soon be used more widely within the sector.

After she was stuck in a Canberra hospital for 19 months, paraplegic 84-year-old Mary Wansey has lost hope of ever finding a place in aged care.

An aged care provider in Sydney's north says a move by NSW Crown Lands has unfairly targeted them in an attempt to maximise returns for the taxpayer.