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Leading peak seniors’ advocacy organisation COTA Australia today welcomed the review into how care quality in nursing homes is regulated, following recent major failures in one home in South Australia.
COTA Australia welcomes the consolidation of the current four sets of standards for aged care services into a single set of standards for organisations providing aged care services and supports the streamlining of the quality assessment process.
February 2017 – COTA continues its call for current and future governments to take a long-term, strategic, integrated policy approach to population ageing, and a fair, equitable and productive policy approach towards current and future cohorts of older Australians.
Submission On The National Aged Care Advocacy Framework
COTA Australia has welcomed the appointment of David Tune AO PSM to lead the Aged Care Legislated Review.
Leading seniors’ advocacy organisation COTA Australia has welcomed Aged Care Minister Sussan Ley’s announcement today of dedicated funds for specialist dementia care units and dementia friendly communities.
Leading seniors advocacy body COTA Australia today welcomed the announcement by Minister Fifield of the establishment of the Aged Care Quality Advisory Council to ensure the government gets advice from a range of expert voices in the provision of quality services to people in aged care.
Older people are progressively being given the right to choose what sort of aged care they receive and how they receive it, with over 70,000 home care package moving to a new system of Consumer Directed Care in less than nine months.
Submission on Exposure draft of the Medical Services (Dying with Dignity) Bill 2014
COTA Australia, the peak group for older Australians, has welcomed Senator Mitch Fifield’s comments
today confirming the Federal Government’s commitment to implement financial aged care reforms which give consumers choice and protections and will make the industry more viable.
COTA Australia is the national policy vehicle of the eight State and Territory Councils on the Ageing (COTA) in NSW, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, ACT and the Northern Territory.
Australia’s population is ageing and this will accelerate as the baby boomers move into older age. In 2011 there were 3 million people over the age of 65, making up around 14 per cent of the population and this figure will rise to over 8 million in 2050 or 25 per cent of the population.