Aged Care Opinion Pieces and Letters 2012-2025 This document contains 86 opinion pieces and numerous letters published in The Age between 2012…Sarah RussellNovember 29, 2025
Aged CareEducationPoliticsSocial issues Commodity training Published in Letters to The Age 23 November 2025 This letter was inspired by an…Sarah RussellNovember 23, 2025
Aged Care Support at Home? First they came for the young people, now they come for the old The Aged Care Royal Commission was blunt about some aged care providers rorting home care…Sarah RussellNovember 16, 2025
Aged CareHealth CareSocial issues Talking about Dying In 2004, Jan Browne, Sarah L'Estrang and I spoke with 100 people who were dying…Sarah RussellNovember 5, 2025
Aged CarePoliticsSocial issues Pay per shower: fully-funded aged care turns market-driven aged support Forty years ago, the Hawke Government introduced a significant aged care initiative that was in line with traditional Labor values.…Sarah RussellNovember 3, 2025
Aged Care The aged care crises continue under a Labor government It has been four years since the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety’s final report…Sarah RussellSeptember 12, 2025
Aged Care Aged care “free market” where a home care package deal masks a crisis Seven years after Scott Morrison surprised everyone by announcing the Royal Commission into Aged Care…Sarah RussellSeptember 9, 2025
Aged CarePolitics Big money, big conflicts. Aged care assessment privatised by stealth. The Coalition government abandoned plans to privatise aged care assessments in 2021 following an outcry from key…Sarah RussellMarch 1, 2025
Aged CarePolitics Falling through the aged care cracks After the heart-breaking revelations of the Aged Care Royal Commission, many of us hoped stories…Sarah RussellFebruary 27, 2025
Aged CarePolitics Who’s helping the older people falling through the aged care ‘cracks’? When the Albanese government announced its “once in a generation aged care reforms”, many of…Sarah RussellFebruary 27, 2025