Recognising diverse expertise makes for better policy, the Australia Cares project was founded to enable community-led policy development shaped by lived experience, and community and academic expertise. Drawing together the findings of 18 months of collaboration, deliberation and experimentation, this report marks the conclusion of the first phase of the project.

This report provides an overview of national findings from the 2022 National Carer Survey regarding caring relationships, carers' experiences with services, paid work and health and wellbeing, as well as a deeper exploration of selected topics and diverse caring experiences.

On 25 November 2022, UARC submitted its response to the Department of Health and Aged Care's second discussion paper on the design of the new program for in-home aged care.

This paper offers a commentary on the design of the proposed unified program offers a critique of the initial framework for reforms to the delivery of in-home aged care services. It is a response to an overview paper, released by the Department of Health in January 2022, and discusses the strengths and shortcomings of the...

This randomised control trial evaluated the use of home technology to support older community members living independently at home. The overall finding was that the home intervention benefited people's social care related quality of life and contributed to them staying in their own homes longer, although there were no benefits observed against secondary outcomes.