Older Australians want to be involved in reforming aged care but feel they have little opportunity to do so, according to a survey by National Seniors Australia.
Underfunding our own cleverness has a price
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Underfunding our own cleverness has a price
As a veteran observer of the ups and downs of federal commitment to funding worthy research, it seems that Australia was in a strong position to develop a vaccine that would have been sought after by the rest of the world. The consequences of the delays in vaccine rollout directly affect our ability to competitively bounce back after COVID-19 and prompts the question: what can we learn from the situation?
âInefficientâ to fund aged care through superannuation: Retirement review chairman
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The chairman of a historic review into the retirement sector wants more people to be forced to pay for their own aged care but has rejected an industry push to reserve a portion of superannuation for these costs.
Retirement Income Review chairman Mike Callaghan, chair of the Aged Care Financing Authority from 2018 to 2020 and former chief of staff to Peter Costello, said ring-fencing a portion of super solely for aged care would be âinefficientâ.
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three days of evidence.
A lot of that evidence will come as no surprise to residents of rural and regional towns.
There was one story of a woman who tearfully told the Commission she was worried she’d
be forced to give up her farm, because her home care provider abruptly cut off its services
citing difficulty in accessing her property. A female nurse consoles a senior patient at home, aged care generic
Not only that, she continued to be charged after the provider ceased its visits.
The Commission heard another story of a registered nurse who was bullied and threatened