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The holiday season is here, a time for spending with friends, family and loved ones. Support your older community to stay well and make sure everyone is on top of their vaccinations.

The National Rural Health Commissioner’s Statement of Intent is now available.

The new Single Assessment System workforce will make it easier for older people to enter aged care and access different services as their needs change.

My Aged Care support plans developed or updated from 9 December 2024 can be made available in My Health Record.

The National Dementia Action Plan 2024–2034 aims to improve the quality of life for people living with dementia, their carers and families.

The $200 million Play Our Way program has approved successful applicants.

We have announced the results of the latest ACCAP Grant Opportunity. Find out how many applications we received, and which aged care providers received grants.

A grant opportunity is now open to help eligible Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) providers to meet award wage increases for some aged care workers from 1 January 2025.

Submissions are now open for feedback on the draft Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, Adolescents and Children in Australia.

Doctors are helping more people translate intention into action when it comes to doing the free bowel cancer screening test.

Applications are open for 3 new Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grant opportunities.

Parliament passed the Aged Care Bill on 25 November which means that after Royal Assent the new Aged Care Act will start from 1 July 2025.

The handbook is a new resource designed to help healthcare professionals, medical practice staff or anyone involved in Medicare billing and claiming, to navigate the Medicare system.

We are establishing Genomics Australia from 1 July 2025 to provide national leadership and coordination to better integrate genomics into the health system.

The Australian Government’s Digital ID app, myGovID has changed its name to myID. The app allows you to securely log into and use government services online.

You can help guide how we continue to improve sexual health in Australia by providing feedback on our draft National STI Strategy. Consultation is now open until 20 December 2024.

The 2025 Senior Australian of the Year state and territory award winners have been announced.

We are increasing the Home Care Package subsidy on 1 January 2025 to pass on the Fair Work Commission Stage 3 decision to increase award wages for eligible workers.

Join Ms Rosemary Huxtable AO PSM at 2:00pm AEDT on 5 December 2024 to learn about the National Health and Medical Research Strategy.

We are hosting a webinar to support in-home aged care providers and their workforce to understand upcoming changes to in-home aged care.

We invite you to contribute to our consultation on the Medical Research Future Fund’s (MRFF) Australian Brain Cancer Mission.

Applications are open for the 2024 Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 grant opportunity. Funding is from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF).

In 2025, eligible pregnant women will be able to receive the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for free under the National Immunisation Program (NIP).

The Australian Medical Research Advisory Board (AMRAB) has finalised the Australian Medical Research and Innovation Priorities 2024–2026. This fifth set of Priorities for the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) came into effect on 6 November 2024.