Let’s be clear: aged care doesn’t need another policy tweak. It needs a complete transformation. And it won’t come from Government alone.

As we report in this issue, wait times for Home Care Packages are estimated to reach 130,000 by November while providers scramble to adapt to Support at Home with half the information. We are forecast to drown as a sector with the first wave of Baby Boomers in just two years.

Yet Canberra continues to fine-tune a system that’s no longer fit for purpose and older Australians are the ones that are suffering.

Ian Yates said it best at this year’s