SATURDAY means business: the $7B fault line reshaping home care
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.
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.
Amid growing public frustration over assessment delays, fee spikes, hospital bottlenecks and workforce shortages, Supplementary Budget Estimates offered more clarity – but little comfort.
The review reveals that My Aged Care is acting less as a gateway and more as a barrier to timely, equitable support.