Just think of the following figures. At present, (June 2015 figures) around 173,000 older Australians live in residential aged-care homes. Of these people, about 30,000 have symptoms of some form of mental illness, from anxiety or depression, and another 86,000 have some form of dementia. That’s a lot of people in residential aged care! One[…]

For several months now the media has been analysing the changes to the assets test affecting aged pensions that the federal government signalled they would introduce on 1 January 2017. The focus has been on the number of people on a part-pension who would see their pension reduced or even eliminated. The unspoken argument appears[…]