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How Support at Home's personal care funding changes from October 2026
8+ hour, 12+ min ago (966+ words) From 1 October 2026, personal care services under the Support at Home program will be fully funded by the Australian Government. If you or a loved one receives help with daily tasks like showering, dressing or continence management, you will no longer…...
Alzheimer's patient regains ability to talk and dress herself after magic mushroom compound
7+ hour, 33+ min ago (287+ words) An elderly woman with advanced Alzheimer's disease has shown remarkable, if temporary, improvements in speech, mobility and cognition after receiving high doses of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, according to a case report published in Frontiers in Neuroscience. Researchers administered five grams of…...
How Support at Home's personal care funding changes from October 2026 - Hellocare
8+ hour, 12+ min ago (966+ words) From 1 October 2026, personal care services under the Support at Home program will be fully funded by the Australian Government. If you or a loved one receives help with daily tasks like showering, dressing or continence management, you will no longer…...
The gender tax: How NDIS cuts will quietly shift billions in unpaid care onto women
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (955+ words) Women and families of disabled Australians are set to bear the heaviest load from the federal government's sweeping National Disability Insurance Scheme reforms, with advocacy groups warning that cuts to community participation funding will push care responsibilities back onto informal…...
Aged care minister squirms on radio when pressed on assessment tool algorithm
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (1036+ words) There is a particular kind of political evasion that is almost impressive in its audacity. Not the slippery kind, where a minister edges around a question. The brazen kind, where the question is put to them directly, plainly, repeatedly, and…...
Inquest examines aged care treatment of Adelaide man's pressure sores before death
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (479+ words) A coronial inquest in South Australia is examining whether the care provided to a resident at a metropolitan aged care home was appropriate in the weeks before his death, with a particular focus on the management of pressure sores that…...
BREAKING: Fair Work lifts aged care wages 4. 75%. Unions say it's not enough
1+ week, 1+ day ago (486+ words) The Fair Work Commission has handed down its Annual Wage Review decision this morning, raising minimum and award wages by 4. 75% from 1 July 2026. For aged care workers, many of them on award rates and among the lowest-paid in the country, it's…...
Home care workers are screened before entry. Why aren't the clients they visit?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (934+ words) The people those workers visit? No equivalent check required. It is a disparity that has long simmered in the aged care sector, and one that frontline home care workers say is placing them in genuinely dangerous situations. Alone, in private…...
Assistive technology is reform's "make'or'break' test with system already under strain
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (852+ words) Assistive technology (AT) is more than equipment. It can make everyday activities safer and easier, from moving around the home and showering safely to preparing meals and managing daily routines with greater confidence. When AT is delayed, the effects are…...
Blood biomarkers could detect earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease " and slow its progression
2+ week, 6+ day ago (622+ words) But as our new research suggests, blood biomarkers in combination with self-reported memory concerns could offer an early clue to how Alzheimer's disease develops across the life course. This means midlife could be a critical window for promoting brain health....