#agedcare — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #agedcare, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1186008/ Commonwealth stares down states on controversial private health changes #AgedCare #FederalGovernment #Health #Healthcare #PrivateHealthInsuranceRebate #StateGovernments #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/672064/ Commonwealth stares down states on controversial private health changes #AgedCare #Éire #FederalGovernment #Health #HealthCare #Healthcare #IE #Ireland #PrivateHealthInsuranceRebate #StateGovernments
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States fume over private health changes 'robbing Peter to pay Paul'
By Stephanie DalzellThe states and territories set the stage for a showdown with the Commonwealth over its proposed changes to private health insurance rebates.
#HealthPolicy #FederalStateIssues #AgedCare #HealthInsurance #StephanieDalzell
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Major aged care agency has licence suspended amid fears elderly at risk
By Jessica LongbottomA staffing agency that has provided workers to aged care homes has had its licence suspended over claims it altered pay slips and deployed dozens of unqualified staff to care for the elderly.
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SA government concerned over proposed health insurance rebate cuts
By Leah MacLennanThe South Australian government is warning proposed cuts to health insurance rebates for older Australians could lead to more people turning to the already struggling public health system.
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So let me get this straight, a 20sqm room in a for-profit aged care facility requires a $1.95m deposit and $10k a month in fees.
And the cheaper $1.25m rooms? When residents die, they get renovated and re-listed for $1.65m.
This is the market delivering for our most vulnerable. Aged care isn't about care anymore, it's about property speculation, cheap labour, and siphoning public money.
Meanwhile, the bed blockers (a cruel term for frail older people) are stuck in hospital because they can't find a bed, even if they can afford a $750k deposit.
This is what happens when you privatise essential services. Profit becomes the goal. People become the product. And the system becomes a nightmare to navigate for those who can least cope.#AusPol #AgedCare #PrivatisationFails
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/aug/30/australia-for-profit-aged-care
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@andyjennings
Sure, but it is indicative of the parlous state of #AgedCare in the hands of #ProfitMaking #Grifters — which is not to deride everyone in aged care, where I am sure well-meaning individuals in aged care provider businesses ought to extract some profit to *live* on (whether wages or salary).The definitive public discourse ought to be about #Grifters and large enterprises with questionable morals/ethics and of course the bigger issue of #StateCapture (private profits v social debt).
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“[The] recently departed inspector general of aged care, Natalie Siegel-Brown,[…] believes the system should be turned upside down to start with the outcomes we want, rather than the mechanics of funding and services: to put care first, help people stay at home and connected to their communities. This already occurs with the aged veterans’ care program.”
While I concur 100% with her, there is no way in hell our govt (of any political persuasion) can ever do this while they are busy sticking gum here and there to hold the current systems together. Because that is all they will ever do. What then is the solution?
If one believes that nothing will ever happen to make aged care, affordable and…, well, caring, the answer is to have a *quality of life* Will and an nominated *Power Of Attorney for Health care* mandating AD (assisted dying) when circumstances become intolerable for lack of healthcare support.
The things we are forced to contemplate when irresponsible and deaf govts are in charge… btw, Agedcare **IS** Healthcare, there are no differences here.
If anyone has a better idea, I’ll listen intently, cause I have a stake in this.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/aug/30/australia-for-profit-aged-care
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Older Australians weigh cost of changes to health insurance rebates
By Sarah Buchecker and Grace MarshallThe Coalition is concerned about further pressure on the public health system, as older Australians consider cutting private health insurance ahead of proposed rebate changes.
#HealthInsurance #HealthPolicy #FederalGovernment #HealthcareFacilities #AgedCare #SarahBuchecker #GraceMarshall
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A $1.95m deposit and $10k a month: welcome to the for-profit world of Australian aged care where no one is a winner | Julianne Schultz
By Julianne SchultzLike all the privatised care services, the business of aged care is about property, cheap labour and public money
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/aug/30/australia-for-profit-aged-care
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Interacting with a bank?
Give them no information that you are not legally obliged to give them.
Account holder has died & you have a recognised Power of Attorney?
Don't tell the bank about the death unless you are legally obligated to.
Account holder has reduced capacity & you have a recognised Power of Attorney?
Don't tell the bank unless you are legally obligated to.
The bank will screw people over if in their best interest.
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Specialist care replaces hospital trips for aged care residents
By Kelly FullerThousands of aged care residents are avoiding trips to hospital as specialist clinicians bring treatment directly to them.
#AgedCare #DoctorsandMedicalProfessionals #EmergencyCare #KellyFuller
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'Pretty remarkable' man living with MND for 29 years after diagnosis
By Sarah RichardsThe Queensland grandfather was diagnosed with motor neurone disease 29 years ago. He celebrated his 90th birthday last month.
#MotorNeuronedisease #PeopleWithDisability #AgedCare #SarahRichards
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Why can't clinicians override inaccurate algorithm decisions?
By Anne ConnollyIf the government wants a true indication of the level of feeling in the community, perhaps it should read the thousands of comments on Facebook where discussions about the algorithm, long waitlists, and people dying are growing by the day.
#AgedCare #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #RoyalCommissions #Health #CommunityandSociety #OlderPeople #Carers #LawCrimeandJustice #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #AnneConnolly
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All roads lead back to the Desiccated Coconut: John fucking Howard!
#australia #ausgov #agedcare #privatisation #monetisingmisery
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Liberals accuse government of backdown on aged care program
By Evelyn ManfieldA government program that helps older people with shopping and transport has been extended, after ongoing uncertainty about its future.
#FederalGovernment #AgedCare #HealthPolicy #OlderPeople #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #EvelynManfield
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Previous migration policies 'taking the p*ss' warns migrant rich-lister
By Nassim KhademThere are divergent views among business leaders, from migrant and non-migrant backgrounds, about the impact of planned immigration cuts and the types of migrants that should be allowed into Australia.
#MigrationPolicy #Immigration #SmallBusinesses #EconomicGrowth #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #HousingConstructionIndustry #PopulationGroups #AgedCare #NassimKhadem
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A fifth of older Australians who contested AI-determined home support funding got more after human review https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/19/aged-care-support-at-home-review-ai-integrated-assessment-tool #AgedCare #Health #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews
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A fifth of older Australians who contested AI-determined home support funding got more after human review
By Melissa Davey Medical editorExclusive: Greens say department of health’s integrated assessment tool is ‘under-assessing’ far more people who may not know how to contest
#Agedcare #Health #Australianpolitics #Australianews #TheGuardian #MelissaDaveyMedicaleditor
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Albanese government reduces home care waitlist by changing counting method
By Anne Connolly, Inga Ting, and Ninah KopelA Four Corners investigation can reveal the number of people waiting for full aged care funding at home stands at almost 154,000 — not 100,000 as officially reported.
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yes, the government is stingy with aged care. They all are. But when you say "it's like Robodebt" then you are quite wrong. Robodebt was a group of senior ministers and public servants conspiring to create an algorithm that invented debts owed by recipients. Knowing that it was false. They then pursued those recipients with debt collectors and hounded a lot of them to death. The fact that not a single offender in this criminal conspiracy has been brought before a court is a scandal of the highest order. Be more careful with your language. #auspol #agedcare
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Yes it’s an awful story on the ABC this morning. I feel very let down by Labor; the current minister for Aged Affairs is only there because of some dirty factional deal. He knows nothing of his new ministry and is unsuited to his post.
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Inside the aged care algorithm deciding support for older Australians
#AgedCare
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The aged care algorithm deciding support for older Australians
By Anne Connolly, Ninah Kopel, and Inga TingUsing expert analysis, evidence revealed by bureaucrats at Senate estimates, and documents obtained under FOI, Four Corners reveals the fullest picture yet of the secretive algorithm affecting the lives of tens of thousands of older Australians and their families.
#AgedCare #OlderPeople #FederalGovernment #AnneConnolly #NinahKopel #IngaTing
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As demand increases for voluntary assisted dying, MP urges improvements
By Meg WhitfieldVoluntary assisted dying gave former Tasmanian midwife Gaye Crick agency, at a time when her terminal illness had stripped much of that away. The state's VAD laws are being reviewed three years after they came into effect.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-16/voluntary-assisted-dying-tasmania-review/106583592
#DeathandDying #Euthanasia #HealthPolicy #StateandTerritoryParliament #StateandTerritoryGovernment #AgedCare #MegWhitfield