You’ve done the sports drop off and now have less than 2 hours to maneuver through Sydney’s Saturday morning traffic to pick up your 80 year old mum who needs to go grocery shopping. Of course she said she didn’t need a service when the hospital social worker was planning her discharge. “…My daughter can do all that for me…” I never quite appreciated the term “sandwich generation”. But I get it now and I am not alone. It is difficult to negotiate the social care sector with a

In all the reform madness and “busyness” in health social care we are often focussed on what doesn’t work. We spend our energy on reforming, changing, positioning the faults of the “system” and sharing stories of inequity and poor practice. We are fixated on compliance and standards in the event something may happen to put a person at risk – or the organisation at risk. Of course things can be improved. Of course there are issues with our health and care system. Of course we