With accessing aged care traditionally likened to "navigating a maze", a key goal of the current reforms was to simplify and streamline the system for consumers. But there is debate over whether the new financial arrangements in particular have had ...
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With accessing aged care traditionally likened to “navigating a maze”, a key goal of the current reforms was to simplify and streamline the system for consumers. But there is debate over whether the new financial arrangements in particular have had the opposite effect.
A home monitoring system that learns and adapts to a person’s daily routine and sends alerts based on unusual behaviour is among new CDC-friendly solutions to help seniors age in place to be unveiled in Sydney today.
Assistant Minister for Social Services Mitch Fifield has made his strongest statements in support of a consolidated home support and home care package program as the “next logical step”, while confirming for the first time that some level of block funding would continue for some services.
There are fresh calls for aged care providers to employ dental hygienists to address poor dental hygiene and care in residential facilities, with almost 70 per cent of the residents who took part in a new pilot study identified as requiring dental treatment.
AUDIO: All aged care organisations are open to a crisis and risk damage to brand and reputation if they are not prepared to respond immediately when a crisis hits. Here, an expert makes the case for providers to act now.
Aged care providers in South Australia are ramping up a grassroots campaign to lobby Coalition MPs over the Federal Government’s cessation of the Aged Care Payroll Tax Supplement and are leaflet dropping in key electorates including that of senior minister Christopher Pyne.
Australia must hire and keep more older people and women in the workforce to lift economic and income growth and offset a decline in labour participation over the next 40 years, according to the government’s latest Intergenerational Report.
Several key documents outlining the emerging shape of the new umbrella program were released on Monday night, while the department provided an update to the sector on Tuesday. Here’s AAA’s wrap on the latest tweaks to the program and what we know so far.
Providers will have access to the My Aged Care provider portal next month to update service information and availability in anticipation of receiving electronic referrals from 1 July, but they need to prepare now, a departmental sector briefing has heard.
Some 25 per cent of home care package providers are yet to consider changing their services and systems to a consumer directed care approach four months out from the required transition to CDC, the Department of Social Services has told a sector briefing.
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