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Once you’ve signed your Home Care Agreement, it’s time to relax and to take advantage of the support you’re receiving. Working well with your provider will help you to get the most out of your package.
This video aims to give older people just approved for a package a head start to think about what is possible, once they receive a Home Care Package.
This project ran between 2013 and 2017, funded by the then Department of Health and Ageing. A toolkit and resource guide has been developed to assist providers to implement co-production activities and are available to download from this page.
The objective is to assist you to enhance the capacity of your staff to use a Consumer Directed Care approach.
Most older people want to keep living in their own homes as they age, staying as independent as possible and making their own decisions. Home care can help you to achieve this by giving you extra assistance to stay safe, comfortable and well at home
This project ran between 2013 and 2017, funded by the then Department of Health and Ageing.
Home Care Today helped consumers and providers of Home Care Packages understand and implement Consumer Directed Care.
A new report released today estimates that older people are waiting more than 15 months for home care – raising fears that the Federal Government’s estimates of 9-12 months are false and misleading, COTA Australia says.
The long-awaited introduction of the Age Care Act means the focus can now turn to ensuring Australians get the opportunity to scrutinise the detail to ensure it delivers the rights and protections older Australians deserve, COTA Australia says.
With the holiday season around the corner, COTA Australia – the leading advocacy organisation for older people – is calling on all Australians to help combat loneliness by connecting with their older neighbours, friends, and family in their communities.
The Agenda covers 12 public policy areas and includes 37 recommendations for the 47th Parliament of Australia.
COTA Australia tonight welcomed the very substantial package of measures in tonight’s Federal Budget that will fire the starting gun on a substantial overhaul of the aged care system over the next five years, supported by additional expenditure of $17.7 Billion over four years.
Our view – expressed repeatedly and publicly, and in submissions, over recent years – is that significant parts of the industry are over-reliant on RADs and the industry is short on adequate levels of both equity investment and debt capital.