Sector encouraged to collaborate on new 10-year reform framework
Australian Ageing Agenda's Natasha Egan: A 10-year aged care roadmap will be launched next year and service providers and technology vendors can help shape the development of a framework for further reform, a senior departmental bureaucrat has said.At the recent Information Technology in Aged Care conference, Fiona Buffinton, group manager of access quality and compliance group at the Department of Social Services, said in acknowledgement that five years was not long-term enough, government would deliver a 10-year vision for aged care in 2016 including a key framework.