FTI: what’s really blocking older hospital patients from discharge
The pressure is mounting. Australians aged 65 and over now account for 44% of hospitalisations and 52% of patient days.
The pressure is mounting. Australians aged 65 and over now account for 44% of hospitalisations and 52% of patient days.
Nationals MP Dr Anne Webster, the member for Mallee in far-north-western Victoria, said the Government has broken its no worse off promise.
Interim Packages are already shifting behaviour, grandfathered clients are feeling the squeeze, CHSP is splintering – and price caps are looming with no roadmap in sight.
At 30 June 2025, Australia had 236,894 operational residential and flexible aged care places – only 917 more than the year before.