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Older Australians are already bamboozled by a complex home-care system. So why give them more of the same?

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health and Aged Care Program, Grattan Institute
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More than a million older Australians need care at home each year. More than 1,000 agencies provide services to them.

Despite the federal government allocating significant extra funds to home care in the last budget, there is still a raft of problems with current home-care arrangements.

As we show in our new report, “Unfinished...

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