The Community Citizen of the Year Awards Program is offered as part of a corporate gold membership that the City of Perth has with Auspire – Australia Day Council of WA. These Awards are presented by Local Government within local communities across Western Australia on Australia Day. Community Citizen Of The Year 2020 The Awards…
With the prospect of ‘staying in’ at home looming for many older Australians, we asked our community what support they felt they could draw on to stay healthy and safe at home. The COTA (WA) Stay at Home survey ran over a one week period in March of 2020 and had 333 online responses, with…
Western Australians are living longer and healthier lives than ever before and are a growing resource for their communities. With the start of 2020, we’ve entered the World Health Organisation’s Decade of Healthy Ageing (2020-2030), a pledge by members to ensure the dignity and equality of the older person. High on the agenda for the…
Through our long history of involvement with policy on seniors housing affordability, security and homelessness, including “One Rent Increase from Disaster” – Older renters living on the edge in Western Australia, a core issue raised is that where programs and services exist to support seniors, they lack a central hub of consolidated and accessible information…
In the leadup to Christmas. the ACCC’s Scam Watch service has wared Australians to be on the alert for online scammers. Scammers will often try to take advantage of people going their Christmas shopping. This includes taking advantage of the “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” sales. The ACCC have warned about scammers using websites that…
We’ve been deeply involved in the policy and consultation surrounding the Affordable Housing Action Plan. The most recent development Ageing with Choice: Future directions for seniors housing 2019-2024 has been released that includes a five-year plan to support older Western Australians, particularly those on low to moderate incomes, to access affordable, manageable and stables homes…
Talking with older West Australians about their lives and the challenges they face will the subject of a series of focus groups over the next few months. These are part of our ongoing commitment to ensuring COTA (WA) continues to develop policies and advocate on your behalf about the issues that matter to you. The…
COTA Australia welcomed several additional commitments to the continuing aged care reform process in tonight’s Federal Budget but expressed concern about delays in moving on key reforms. Minister Greg Hunt has announced that the Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) that was to be merged with the Home Care Packages HCP) program by 1 July 2018…
The 2017 Federal Budget has some good measures for older Australians in the areas of health, housing and mature age employment but missed the opportunity to provide better support for older people with poor oral or dental health. Leading seniors advocate, COTA Australia’s CE Ian Yates said older Australians battling to make ends meet would…
Paul Miles, Lynn MacLaren and Margaret Quirk who spoke on the day. At our recent Election Q & A we asked people to pick the Party that best responded to the issues that are important to the older voter, based on the information provided at the Q &A. The results are as follows; ALP (Labor)…