NDIS misses checks on autistic children
Amid a spike in the number of kids with developmental delay, more eligibility checks are expected to see thousands of them removed from the NDIS.
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Age has not managed to weary these magnificent centenarians
In the next few years, the last of those born from 1901 to 1924 will be gone. The Australian asked five centenarians what they believe will define them and their times | WATCH
More stars as care homes improve
The quality of nursing homes has lifted since late last year, the new star rating system shows.
Boomers advance on aged care
Ageing baby boomers could see demand for high-end aged-care surge by 9 per cent annually for the next two decades, with nursing home beds set to almost double to 350,000.
Germaine’s life as an aged-care ‘inmate’
After returning to Australia to sell her home, Germaine Greer, 83, put herself into aged care last year. As Covid lockdowns came and went, she was at times ‘not a patient, but an inmate’.
‘Being a parent was never really on the cards. Until it was’
Parents who live with disability share their fears, challenges and triumphs.
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