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Announcement that Commonwealth Home Support Program will be extented provides much-needed certainty, but the focus must now turn to ensuring the systems deliver for older Australians.
This submission to the Inspector General of Aged Care provides an assessment of progress on the Aged Care Royal Commission recommendations.
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.
COTA Australia has provided a submission to the Inspector General of Aged Care to inform their progress report on the implementation of the recommendations of the Aged Care Royal Commission.
The Agenda covers 12 public policy areas and includes 37 recommendations for the 47th Parliament of Australia.
We only have three sitting days left for the Senate to pass this legislation, or it cannot be passed until well after the election and that would mean very substantial delays in implementing key Royal Commission recommendations.
The grief of family and friends is turning to anger when some commentators infer these deaths matter less because residents were already palliative, or on the other hand try to exploit the tragedy for political point scoring.
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.
While alternate solutions to reform challenges have been provided by the two Commissioners, COTA Australia does not see this as any barrier to commencing urgent reform. Both Commissioners argued for major transformation of our aged care system.
COTA supports the majority of the recommendations but disagrees with some key proposals, especially those that would give more power to aged care providers rather than consumers.
Aged Care providers should be required to provide service and pricing information at a site specific level – not a whole-of-business level – to inform consumer decisions.
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.