James Keane

I'm the founder and editor of Aged Care Checker, an independent Australian website that helps families review and compare residential aged care homes. Choosing an aged care home is one of the hardest decisions a family makes, and the information you need is scattered across a dozen government portals, spreadsheets and PDFs. Star Ratings, care minutes, quality indicators, accommodation deposits and daily fees are all public, but almost none of it is written for the people who actually have to make the call. I kept seeing families make one of the biggest decisions of their lives on a gut feeling and a guided tour, and decided to build the resource I thought should already exist. Aged Care Checker brings that data into one place, puts homes side by side, and explains in plain language wh...