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Background
As Australia's population ages, the quality, availability and cost of aged care services — both residential and home-based — has become a recurring concern raised by communities to their Voices Groups. Workforce shortages, waiting times for Home Care Packages, and the standard of residential care all feature prominently in community feedback.
This is an illustrative Backgrounder, created to demonstrate the Backgrounder Library's structure — it is not yet based on compiled source research.
Key themes raised by communities
Aged care workforce pay, training and retention
Waiting times for Home Care Packages
Quality and safety standards in residential aged care
Affordability of care for people with modest superannuation savings
References
Source material and full citations for this Backgrounder are still being compiled. Once complete, they'll be linked here and in the corresponding Reference Library article.