With Aged Care policy on the brink of reform, the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research and the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU brought together Australian and international experts to examine the next steps. The Aged Care Policy Dialogue was held in Canberra on 4 December 2012. Here CEPAR Chief Investigator Professor Hal Kendig discusses aged care reform with ABC TV Breakfast host Karina Carvalho.