New ‘clarion call’ for providers, consumers to maximise package use
Managing unspent funds in home care packages continues to be on ongoing issue for providers ahead of the February 2017 changes with new...
Aged Care Roadmap: what will aged care look like in a decade?
Providers should start preparing for a future where the traditional boundaries between home and residential care collapse and new models...
‘Boomerang children’: Exempt from superannuation death tax?
Given the rising cost of housing, adult children are living with their parents for longer and parents have more in superannuation than...
NDIS payment system error leaves providers, participants unpaid for three weeks
A breakdown in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) payment system has left providers and participants unpaid for the past...
Legionella found in Qld hospital
Water systems at a south western Queensland hospital have returned positive results for Legionella bacteria. Legionella bacteria has been...
Challenges of CDC in residential emerge in UK pilots
The experiment to introduce consumer directed care to residential aged care homes in the UK has “largely failed at this point”, after...