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Must Read Support at Home: Intentions undermined by complex reality, residents survey finds

“People need help now, not in 12 months.” A new survey has captured the frustrations of older Australians waiting for Support at Home services, with residents calling for a simpler system that delivers care when it is needed. Read more

Senate votes to scrap aged care assessment algorithm after damning Four Corners exposé

By HelloCare Editorial Team

The Senate has voted to scrap Labor's aged care assessment algorithm, days after Four Corners revealed it barely reads the clinical data it collects. The IAT's days may be numbered. Read More

Revealed: The funding trick behind Labor’s “shrinking” aged care waitlist

By Jakob Neeland

The sudden, celebrated drop in the waitlist after the "once in a generation" reforms took effect wasn't the result of people getting care faster. It was largely the result of a change to what counts as "waiting" at all. Read More

No carers, no care: why supporting carers is non-negotiable

By HelloCare Editorial Team

Half of all residential aged care residents live with some form of cognitive impairment. Dementia Training Australia's Dr Isabelle Meyer explains why prevention, early recognition and carer support are now core skills – not specialist add-ons – for every aged care worker. Read More

Cruel by design: Four Corners exposed how Labor built a machine to say No to older Australians

By Jakob Neeland

Last night's Four Corners investigation exposed how Labor built a machine to say NO to older Australians more efficiently, and quietly redefined how it counts wait times to make a broken system look better on paper. Cruel by design, not by accident. Behind the numbers: real families like Audrey's and Sean's, still waiting, still being failed. Read More

#WisdomWednesday

Wisdom Wednesday is about celebrating the experience and wisdom of our elders across the globe through storytelling. It's through these stories that we attempt to elevate their often unspoken worth and value of age unwittingly lost to peers and future generations. Do you have an elders story to share or are you an elder yourself that would like to be interviewed? Help us celebrate the lives of older Australians through Wisdom Wednesday, a weekly segment posted every Wednesday. Our older generation are by definition the most experienced members of our community, but as they age and transition into more passive, physically constrained roles in society, their importance often dwindles, particularly so as they enter long-term care. 

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