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7 January 2025 - Carolina is an aged care volunteer through the Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme. She opens up about how happy she feels paying visits to Gisa in her residential aged care home.

2 October 2025 - Find out more about wellness and reablement in the CHSP to help you empower and support older people to live safely and independently at home.

16 October 2025 - We are reforming aged care in response to the Aged Care Royal Commission. This will put the rights and needs of older people first, and ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have access to culturally safe, appropriate and accessible care.

31 August 2022 - From 1 July 2022, the National Cervical Screening Program will allow all eligible screeners to collect their own Cervical Screening Test sample.

28 July 2025 - This video is for people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities. It explains how to take your own cervical screening test sample if self-collection is chosen as a screening option for a cervical screening test.

11 December 2025 - The strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards are more measurable, detailed and comprehensive. The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety identified focus areas for improvement, including diversity, governance, food and nutrition, dementia and clinical care.

12 August 2024 - State and territory governments decide how to distribute the health workforce in their own jurisdictions through the Area of Need (AoN) classification. Read about AoN and how to search for locations classified AoN.

25 November 2024 - 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.

8 September 2022 - This video explains how to take your own cervical screening test sample if self-collection is chosen as a screening option for a cervical screening test.

31 October 2025 - Under the new Aged Care Act, older people must be treated with respect and are presumed to have the ability to make decisions. If they want help to make decisions they can choose to have a registered supporter. Find out more about this role, what it replaces and what is staying the same.