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Government to commit $3.7bn to strengthen aged care access

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
... subsidies for aged care providers who build or expand residential accommodation, deliver up to 20 additional Specialist Dementia Care Program units and expand the Hospital to Aged Care Dementia Support program from 11 to 20 locations nationally. This ...

Government aims to 're-make' NDIS, redirect funding to aged care

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2026
... packages and better care for older Australians, while $200 million will be invested to deliver 20 additional Specialist Dementia Care units to expand the Hospital to Aged Care Dementia Support Program. He also said the increased rebate for Australians ...

Advisers at the forefront of elder financial abuse prevention

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... one type of abuse, with the most common combination being psychological abuse and neglect. Meanwhile, new research from Dementia Australia estimates that those living with dementia in 2026 increased to 446,500 and is set to more than double by 2065. ...

ASIC warns of 'sharp rise' in financial misconduct

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... behaviour. One example cited by ASIC was a report of a financial adviser that obtained the signature of a client with dementia across multiple investment documents. The client did not fully understand the documents signed, which contained high fees. ...

UniSuper lifts fund manager investment to $100m

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... companies," is Kinoxis Therapeutics, which is running a Phase 2 clinical trial to test a new drug to help temper aggression in dementia patients. It's also invested in Analog Quantum Circuits, which develops superconducting quantum technology with "strong ...

Older Aussies are retirement illiterate: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023
... also weighs heavily on retirees' minds for a variety of reasons, ranging from human vulnerability to the incidence of dementia and the possibility of family disputes. "Whilst old age and the potential need for aged care accommodation is predictable ...

Australian Retirement Trust reduces fees, ups premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... offering based on feedback from members, including changes to definitions like those used for cognitive function/impairment, dementia/Alzheimer's, partial disability or partially disabled, TPD - loss of limbs and/or sight, a contractor, and a self-employed ...

Why advisers must understand Retirement Income Covenant

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2021
... to an arrangement as cognitive decline sets in. In people aged 65, one in 10 have some sort of cognitive decline, like dementia, by 85 it's three in five. So that always has to be factored in when you are talking about retirement strategies."

Wilsons adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... senior advisor at BGH Capital, trustee of NZ Business Mentors, Auckland Grammar School Foundation and the New Zealand Dementia Prevention Trust. He was also previously the chair of Contact Energy and Fletcher Building. Williamson joined Craigs in 2009 ...

Budget commitment to aged care not good enough

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... workforce skills in the aged care sector. This funding would help train and support aged care providers and carers of dementia sufferers, Frydenberg said. Lane noted that there were around 370,000 aged care workers operating across the residential and ...
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