The recently released Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Report highlights the delays in older people accessing aged care. According to the report, of those older people assessed as requiring care servcies, 30 percent had not accessed a care services …
Read moreThe recent Leading Age Services Australia National Congress 2013 was the perfect forum for further discussion relating to Consumer Directed Care and the introduction of the new Home Care Packages and associated fees, and to the provision of funded and …
Read moreFrom 1 July 2014 the new means testing arrangements will begin, there will be new extra service arrangements and an Aged Care Pricing Commissioner will be appointed, whose role will be to approve accommodation payments that exceed the maximum prescribed …
Read moreThe Council of Social Services NSW (NCOSS) have provided a comprehensive summary of the newly named Home Care Packages and a view of what recipients of these packages can expect. The NCOSS summary questioned how well pre-defined levels of packages …
Read moreThe Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association has published an excellent article on the costs of Aged Care under the new funding system. It outlines Care at Home costs for Aged Pensioners, Care at Home costs for self-funded retirees, nursing home …
Read moreUnder the Living Longer Living Better aged care reforms all existing aged care packages (HACC, CACP, EACH and EACH-D) will be consolidated into a single program known as ‘Home Care Packages Program’. From July 2013, there will be four levels …
Read moreIn March 2013, five bills were introduced to the House of Representatives, which propose amendments to the Aged Care Act 1997. The introduction of the bills will underpin the Gillard Government’s proposed Living Longer, Living Better aged care reform, and …
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