6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (919+ words) Australia’s oldest woman, South Australian great-grandmother Lorna Henstridge, has died aged 112, bringing to an end the extraordinary life of a woman who witnessed two world wars, two pandemics, the Great Depression and the terms of 26 Australian prime ministers. Henstridge died…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1081+ words) Dovida CE, Geoff Hogg points to a client living with Parkinson’s disease as an example. She had suffered multiple falls and hospitalisations, and her care team could see her condition had clearly declined. When she was reassessed, the standardised outcome…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (884+ words) After legislating controversial reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) last week, the government’s plan to cut 160,000 NDIS participants and save A$37.8 billion over four years is underway. The legislation tightens access to the NDIS by: But we still…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (426+ words) That funding algorithm is built from just two numbers, each produced by a separate scale: Those two scores are combined into 16 “classes”, which are then compressed into the eight funding levels people actually see on their letter. Professor Eagar’s blunt…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (477+ words) Two months ago, in an interview for an entirely different story, Flexi Care general manager Adrian Morgan raised an issue that I had yet to stumble across. Providers across the sector, he said, were watching the Department of Health, Disability…...