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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

HELF isn’t the problem. Pretending aged care was ever equal is.

By Jakob Neeland

One aged care CEO says it's time to get real about HELF. Services have never been equal, and pretending otherwise only hides the problem, it doesn't solve it. He argues the sector needs to drop the fantasy of an aged care utopia where everyone gets the best of everything without paying extra, and face the funding gap driving it. Read More

ANMF wants for-profit aged care under 20% within a decade

By HelloCare Editorial Team

New survey data shows for-profit aged care facilities scoring worse than public and not-for-profit providers on almost every staffing metric. The ANMF's response? A ten-year plan to cut for-profit market share to under 20%. Read More

How well do COVID antivirals actually work? Not as well as we thought

By HelloCare Editorial Team

COVID antivirals were once seen as a major weapon against severe illness. But new research suggests their benefits may be much smaller now, particularly among people with existing immunity. With Australia spending more than $2 billion on these drugs, researchers say it is time to reassess how well they actually work. Read More

Unpacking the aged care algorithm: How the system is weighted against those who need it most

Professor Kathy Eagar spent months pulling apart the code behind the Support at Home algorithm. Last night, she told the Senate inquiry exactly what she found: only 23 of 622 questions decide your funding, while dementia, mental illness and elder abuse barely factor in at all. Here's exactly how the whole system works. 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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