Several areas need further examination, refinement and reconsideration – including the issues around payment options for residential care – but the important factor is that the reform process has begun, writes Senator Rachel Siewert.
Archive | Opinion
The big questions for boards
Futurist and commentator Dr Keith Suter writes that to survive in the new era of reform, aged care managers and board directors will need stop benchmarking the competition and instead look to new ideas and uncontested opportunities in the industry.
Great leap forward leads to great famine
Leading Age Services Australia CEO Patrick Reid warns that, without sober and responsible amendments in the Senate, the five aged care bills underpinning reform may be a great leap forward off a fiscal cliff for providers of care.
Message to Our Federal Parliamentarians
Some issues and questions from a peak provider group for Parliamentarians who are considering and debating the five bills before the Parliament which underpin the Government’s Living Longer Living Better aged care reforms.
Only half right
There’s a lot to agree with in Ray Glickman’s op-ed last week says a NSW CEO, but aged services providers should be wary of throwing out the baby with the bathwater… and remember there’s a lot to be said for the ‘art of influence’.
Maintain the rage
Reviewing his ‘four levers of reform’ thesis published in AAA 11 months ago, the CEO of WA’s Amana Living says providers should reject compromise, maintain the rage and demand a ‘Back to the PC Future’ this election.
Opinion – Drawing the dementia battlelines
Author and activist, Tom Valenta reflects on the power of more than one.
