For the first time, nationally consistent guidelines have been introduced for the home delivered and centre-based meals sector under the Commonwealth Home Support Program. While initially implemented as a set of voluntary standards, the national meal guidelines replace existing state-based guidelines to provide nationally consistent advice to CHSP meals providers. The guidelines were formally launched by the Australian Meals on Wheels Association (AMOWA) at Parliament House o

Western Australia’s Home and Community Care (HACC) program will transfer to the Federal Government on 1 July 2018, completing the Commonwealth’s takeover of entry-level aged care services for people over 65. The WA and Commonwealth governments finalised an agreement on 31 January outlining the transition process, which will end the jointly funded, state-managed program. WA is the last state to relinquish responsibility for HACC services for older clients. Announcing the deal

Hunter disability service workers and family members of people who receive care will protest against the NSW Government’s privatisation of the Department of Ageing Disability and Home Care (ADHC) on Tuesday. About 200 people from across Maitland, Newcastle and the Central Coast will rally in front of state parliament house against what the Public Service Association said in a statement were “massive shortfalls” in funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme. “The NSW

FREE online toolkit launched this week provides aged care managers and administrators with the first comprehensive guide for implementing an interprofessional education (IPE) program for students and staff at their facility. Interprofessional education - when aged care professionals take part in a program to learn from and about each other in order to improve collaboration and quality of resident care - has been shown to provide numerous benefits in these settings, including:

The department of health releases Report on access to care for Supported Residents and discussion paper. Click here to access the reports and more information #AgedCareCommunityCareHomeCareNDISRetire #news

If you have entered care and are required to pay an Entry Fee you can choose to pay this in one of three ways: A Lump sum payment called a ‘Refundable Accommodation Payment’ or RAD A Regular rental-type payment called a ‘Daily Accommodation Payment’ or DAP Combination of a RAD and a DAP You will have 28 days from the day you enter care to decide on your payment method. It is important to note however, until you decide on your payment method, the DAP will be charged from day

The Department of health has released a public discussion paper on Nursing Home Bonds (RAD's). Click here to access this paper Read more at https://agedcare.health.gov.au/reform/public-discussion-paper-the-protection-of-residential-aged-care-lump-sum-payments #AgedCareCommunityCareHomeCareNDISRetire #news

The Commonwealth and Western Australian governments have finalised a bilateral agreement for the delivery of a locally-run National Disability Insurance Scheme in WA, to commence from July. Under the agreement signed yesterday, the WA government will be responsible for the administration and operating costs of the state-run scheme, while governance responsibility will be shared. The Commonwealth will fund about 40 per cent of the average package costs for participants and WA

Electrolux has moved to aquire Anova, the US maker of a connected home cooker that links directly with a smartphone and cooks food in a bag. The cooker itself is a wand-like immersion circulator that attaches to a pot and heats food, it maintains water at a precise temperature to ensure perfect results. Established in 2013, Anova’s Precision Cooker also connects to a user’s smartphone which allows the user to access thousands of recipes to make it easy to cook sous vide — a t

There is no compelling case to change the Accommodation Bond Guarantee Scheme in aged care given most aged care operators have adequate prudential arrangements and the government can already levy industry to recoup costs, providers will tell the Aged Care Funding Authority’s review of the scheme. As a result of changes to how older people fund their residential aged care introduced in 2014, the value of accommodation bonds in the sector has been steadily increasing – to about