In China, the world's leader in robot production, machines have already begun providing the elderly with care and helping raise children at daycare centres. While it has become common to see robots on factory assembly lines, in China the machines have already begun providing the elderly with care and helping raise children at daycare centres. At one of China's largest daycare centres, in Sanhe, Hubei province, three white and round-bodied robots help give classes. The childre

Residents of retirement villages have called for clarity on who pays for maintenance of air conditioning units, water heaters and other fixtures in their homes. Allan Wright, chairman of the residents committee at the Bellerive Retirement Village in Lyons, said the current rules were interpreted differently in different retirement homes, leaving some residents having to pay big maintenance bills. Allan Wright, chairman of the residents committee at Bellerive retirement villag

The Department of Health has release a second learning video in the series for ACFI. This video covers Complex Health Care category as well as explains that the DR and DNA codes on the statements mean. Read more at https://www.humanservices.gov.au/health-professionals/news/take-break-learn-about-aged-care-funding-instrument Video link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6IzAGfOK24 #AgedCareCommunityCareHomeCareNDISRetire #news

The Department of health has just released their latest Aged Care Provider News Letter. Click link here to open https://gallery.mailchimp.com/1108de8332cef333bc1956686/files/c2273299-a72b-403d-a8f2-964a7a3e733e/Information_for_Aged_Care_Providers_Newsletter_2017_Issue_7.01.pdf #CDCinNursingHomes #CDCHomeCareConsumerDirectedCare #CHSP #AgedCareCommunityCareHomeCareNDISRetire #news

The Department of Health is encouraging residential Aged Care Providers to register now to participate in this year's Aged Care National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey (acNAPS). The acNAPS aims to: reduce harm to aged care residents by preventing infections through a greater focus on infection control promote appropriate antimicrobial (e.g. antibiotic) use collate de-identified data that allows each aged care home to benchmark their results against the Australian average su

More and more State and Local Governments are struggling with or divesting themselves from providing direct care services. Governments should step in when services are not being adequately provided. Governments are better at ensuring third party providers are following protocols, regulations, quality assurance and accreditation than they are at providing direct services. When they are the regulator (or have to close a relationship with the regulator) and the service provider

Remember the days of excessive mobile phone bills? For most of us those days are gone, as we ‘bundle’ our phone and data service. Home care pricing will likely follow a user-demand model, adjusting as providers and customers settle into the world of consumer directed care (CDC). Grant Corderoy from StewartBrown spoke at a recent breakfast in WA, citing early financial performance results from CDC in their ‘Aged Care Financial Performance Survey’ (the largest quarterly benchma

Residential Aged Care is continuing to change, residents are increasingly setting older and frailer. With the changing demographic of residents, the funding instrument needs to change to keep up. The proposals are to change ACFI from an Additive design where you add the scores to get a value to a Branching design where there are fixed and variable components. 5 options were looked at with the Branching option being the one that was recommended. Read more at https://agedcare

The young man was breathless, distressed and in pain when he presented at the emergency department of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He had been in treatment for bone cancer and though his condition had not significantly improved, he expected it would soon turn around with immunotherapy. More than 70 per cent of Australians say they would prefer to die at home. Nobody told him how close he stood to the void. By the time palliative care director Maria Cigolini met him in emerge

The Turnbull government is forging ahead with reforms to GP care despite fears its policy is rushed and underfunded. The government is set to announce 200 trial sites for Health Care Homes – described by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as one of the biggest health system reforms since Medicare – in the coming days, Fairfax Media can reveal. Under the signature policy, patients with multiple chronic conditions – as many as one in five Australians – will get a co-ordinated and