High cost of relief for dying patients
Palliative care patients may have to pay more than $4000 for imported pain-killing tablets as existing morphine products are removed from the market and supplies dwindle.
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IV crisis worsens with morphine supplies now low
Supplies of several crucial medicines are running short around the nation, such as liquid morphine products vital to ease the suffering of palliative care patients, including children.
Albanese facing a pay-grab stampede
Nearly 300,000 disability workers will demand taxpayers fund an above-inflation pay rise in the wake of $15bn in wage increases given to childcare and aged-care staff.
Call to make aged care more like Medicare
The nation’s independent aged care overseer is urging the Albanese government to tear up parts of its planned new aged care act so that care becomes a universal entitlement for older Australians, like Medicare.
Aged-care pay rises for 250,000 to be phased in
Wage rises of up to 13.5 per cent for 250,000 aged-care workers will be paid in two tranches by October next year.
NDIS pricing ‘a kick in the guts’
New prices for NDIS supports will push some service providers to the brink, advocates warn.
The conversation you need to have with a dying loved one
Should we let people in the last stage of life make the most of the time left, instead of facing constant medical treatments? One family’s experience shows what might be gained if we do.
Stop blame game on NDIS mess
People with severe disabilities will suffer if the scheme is not fixed.
NDIS billions spent on ‘drugs, holidays’
Agency officials have revealed evidence indicating up to 90pc of NDIS plan managers were committing fraud.
Union warns pay rise delay will create staff crisis
Health workers says they will consider quitting if wage increases are delayed.
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Foster care shame: system ‘damaged kids’
A foster child in the care of the NSW government had rotten teeth requiring removal and his appendix was infested with worms, but that’s not the worst the little boy endured, a magistrate has found.
One in five of us live with disability, it’s time we are seen by brands
When I turned on the TV, the radio or read the newspaper growing up, I never saw or heard anybody like me. But with help of industry, creatives, consumers and the wider public, things are changing. Slowly, but they are.
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.
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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