AN-ACC doesn't fund a diagnosis of dementia. It funds what dementia does to a person, and new Mirus Australia analysis shows it does that unevenly, paying immobility roughly twice as much as cognitive load, and rewarding physical dependency over behavioural complexity. Read More

"I found the repetition of filling in the same forms (horrible) I already filled all that information in." That's the reality for many Australian dementia carers trying to access support, according to new AIHW survey data. Complex applications were the number one barrier carers reported. Read More

Can a pricing model based on historical provider costs, then adjusted through indexation, keep pace with the actual cost of delivering care when those costs are changing rapidly? When StewartBrown applies newer provider cost data to the pricing methodology, it arrives at $310.91 - that’s a $7.72 difference. Read More