Elderly care
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Nov 3, 2026
Tonya MosleyHOST
My guest, Paula Span, has spent nearly two decades reporting on aging for The New York Times in partnership with with KFF Health News.
Tonya MosleyHOST
She writes about the hard choices families face, the gaps in our elder care system, and the inventive ways Americans care for one another.
Tonya MosleyHOST
Paula Span, welcome to Fresh Air.
Paula SpanGUEST
I'm so glad to be with you to talk
Paula SpanGUEST
Sometimes they cut back to part-time work, and sometimes they leave the workforce altogether.
Paula SpanGUEST
which then imperils their own financial futures because they have no income for a while and because they're not earning credits towards Social Security.
Paula SpanGUEST
And this analysis is not looking at the cost of elder care itself if, besides the family, Someone is using home care or is in an adult day program.
Paula SpanGUEST
So I looked up the most recent cost figures.
Hannah McQueenHOST
Last episode, we put your toughest comments to Tracey Martin, the head of Aged Care Association.
Hannah McQueenHOST
Wet pads, call bells that no one answered, staff stretched way too thin.
Hannah McQueenHOST
And again and again, her answer came back to two words, staffing and funding.
Hannah McQueenHOST
So today we're gonna go to the person who plans for that staffing.
Hannah McQueenHOST
Rebecca Begum is the Aged Care Association's clinical lead and workforce planner.
Hannah McQueenHOST
She's a gerontologist, registered nurse who works with the nurses on the floor.
Hannah McQueenHOST
She knows why one registered nurse can end up responsible for 30 residents and why eight in 10 people in rest home care now live with some form of cognitive decline.
Hannah McQueenHOST
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Paul SadlerGUEST
We've now got over 3,000 older Australians stuck in hospital beds because there is not an appropriate home care or residential care alternative for those people.
Paul SadlerGUEST
We've now got 250,000 people who need aged care who are yet to receive anything from the aged care system.
Paul SadlerGUEST
Absolutely.
Paul SadlerGUEST
You had to give it a score out of 10 for how successful it's been.
Rose PlaterHOST
delivered and it's called Support at Home, that's probably about the two things that go
Paul SadlerGUEST
right.
Paul SadlerGUEST
And the fact that we do have an increase in the number of people receiving packaged care.
Paul SadlerGUEST
Yeah.
Paul SadlerGUEST
We've now got over 3,000 older Australians stuck in hospital beds because there is not an appropriate home care or residential care alternative for those people.
Paul SadlerGUEST
We've now got 250,000 people who need aged care who are yet to receive anything from the aged care system.
Paul SadlerGUEST
Absolutely.
Paul SadlerGUEST
You had to give it a score out of 10 for how successful it's been.
Rose PlaterHOST
delivered and it's called Support at Home, that's probably about the two things that go
Paul SadlerGUEST
right.
Paul SadlerGUEST
And the fact that we do have an increase in the number of people receiving packaged care.
Paul SadlerGUEST
Yeah.
Maree O'ConnorHOST
The aged care system has changed, and for those of us working with older people with lymphedema and chronic edema, understanding what those changes mean in practice is becoming increasingly important.
Maree O'ConnorHOST
The November 2025 aged care reforms introduced major changes to the way aged care is structured and funded, including the new supported home program, a stronger rights-based framework and new responsibilities for providers.
Maree O'ConnorHOST
But what does all this actually mean when an older person develops chronic oedema or lymphoedema? Who assesses them? Who can provide specialist care? How do they access compression or other equipment? And perhaps one of the most practical questions, who actually pays? In this two-part podcast, we're going to explore those questions for both older adults living in the community and for those living in residential aged care.
Maree O'ConnorHOST
Welcome to Lymphedema Insights for Health Professionals.
Mike LinkGUEST
We started probably 10 years ago with home security using AI to do you know, people detection, dog detection, package detection, and that thing grew pretty quickly and then allowed us to build other things.
Mike LinkGUEST
One of which we'll talk about today is the elder care business where we can detect falls and let families know, staff know when somebody's on the ground in a room, which is pretty cool.
Mike LinkGUEST
And then the other thing which we're building is enterprise security.
Mike LinkGUEST
So, you know, in retail stores, in commercial real estate, using existing cameras to layer things AI over to do either security or intelligence, maybe in like a grocery store, seeing where people spend the most time or maybe in a warehouse to do detections of breaking and entering or maybe inventory management or possibly even like warehouse shelving, deteriorating and breaking.
Neil C. HughesHOST
And I've got to ask, because I always love diving into the origin story of my guests.
Neil C. HughesHOST
You talk about home security, package detection and retail store security.
Neil C. HughesHOST
What was it that first showed you that elder care needed a different approach to monitoring safety and also supporting independence? There's got to be a story there.
Neil C. HughesHOST
Was there a moment that inspired that?
Michael ColawGUEST
Be that gate, be that bridge, that door that takes your concerns to city management and city staff.
Michael ColawGUEST
So, you know, I believe those experiences of serving combined with professional background of having worked in the church world or work at corporate, you know, with Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, and then now serving nonprofit world working at Eldercare, those things combined kind of prepare me to serve our community in a different way and to really represent those folks in Ward 1 to the fullest.
Tom DavisHOST
Now, you've outlined three priorities for Baltimore.
Tom DavisHOST
We heard some of this at the forum.
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Michael ColawGUEST
They're going to drive by where we have shopping.
Michael ColawGUEST
They're going to drive by our parks and our athletic fields and go, is this a place that we want to bring a company to have employees move here? And people are going, is this where I want to live and raise my family? And so that's all part of quality of life.
Michael ColawGUEST
You know, just a week ago, we had a fundraiser at Eldercare at the community center.
Michael ColawGUEST
Fantastic, fun event.
Chris LopezHOST
I do want to dig in a lot.
Chris LopezHOST
I love that you're talking about operations on here because I've had, you know, I've got friends that have operated, you know, been the operators on Senior Care.
Chris LopezHOST
I've had friends that have, you know, invested in real estate.
Chris LopezHOST
They found operators, you know, those pros and cons to each.
Sandra HillsGUEST
We're still working in the silos.
Sandra HillsGUEST
absolutely we work we compete against each other forget about you know child care and and disability and health in aged care we compete against each other in regions we compete against each other in hospital you know if you've got health care it's just and and that's that you know that's a whole story but we actually don't look at if we put the person at the center of care which is what we should be doing.
Sandra HillsGUEST
Government want us to do that.
Sandra HillsGUEST
It's not how the system is designed.
Sandra HillsGUEST
If we really looked at that, we would actually change the way that we provide our services and we employ our staff and we look after our staff.
Sandra HillsGUEST
Unfortunately, for example, the unions have been not that receptive with the unions that I work with in terms of looking at different models.
Sandra HillsGUEST
Why are we asking for certain models that just perpetuate what we've done in the past? And as we heard from Dev, we know that we need about 10,000 extra staff in aged care for the next 10 years.
Sandra HillsGUEST
We haven't even got the staff.
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It's five o'clock.
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The National Party has promised to create a steering group for aged care reform if re-elected.
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Health Minister Simeon Brown announced the policy at the Aged Care Associate Conference 2026 in Wellington this morning.
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This comes following an August report from the Ministerial Advisory Group on Aged Care in New Zealand, which recommended 40 changes including significant price uplifts and a lower threshold for acquiring asset holders to pay towards their care.
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Brown says National agrees with the report and would work with industry to further implement improvements in funding, transport pricing, capacity planning, assessments and transitions regarding healthcare.
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About 150 Etu union workers, including TVNZ journalists and newsroom staff, were on strike outside of TVNZ's Auckland headquarters today afternoon.
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