New contracts for Residential Aged Care and Home Care
Just a reminder about implementing new contracts and new Charter for Residential Aged Care and Home Care clients. The new Charter for...
The worst start to a flu season
Queensland and South Australia have reported large flu outbreaks this year already. Sadly 17 people have died from the flu already this...
New guide to safe aged care work practices
The National Guide for Aged Care 2019/20 developed by Pro-Vision and their partners includes topics on; improving wound care, infection...
New Personal Care Worker training package developed
The Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care (ACEBAC) at La Trobe University and designed for delivery by a nurse working in the...
New Home Care Rules
Don't forget the new home care rules: mandatory publication of prices in the home care pricing comparability Schedule (the Schedule) as...
Auskey being replaced by myGovID and RAM
Auskey will be tired in 2020 and replaced by myGovID and Relationship Authorisation Manager (RAM). Read more about this at:...
New Charter of Rights for Aged Care Recipients
The new single charter of rights has been released for federally funded aged care clients, of note: 1. The start date is 1/7/2019 2. ...
New ACFI model explained
The AN-ACC assessment and funding model is based on the following six key design elements: resident funding assessment to be separate...
$320 Million increase in aged care funding starts today
The Federal Government's increased Aged Care funding starts today. Although the government explanations talk about it as one off funding,...
New Aged Care Funding Module released
The Department of Health and Aged Care along with the University of Wollongong have release a report on a proposed new module for...