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

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

A Queensland community is up in arms over a proposed deal that would hand its locally built nursing home to a national aged care provider. Locals say the facility was built through community donations and fundraising, and are questioning what will happen to its millions in assets. Read More