Aged care’s Single Assessment System ‘failing targets’: Dept
Consumers are waiting up to nine months to be assessed – four times the 40-day target, with some are falling through the cracks altogether.
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Another local council slams CHSP funding
“The reality is that the current funding model no longer covers the true cost of delivering these services, leaving local councils to fill the gap”
ABC reports on aged care assessments: The Weekly SOURCE has covered it for four months
Since July this year, The Weekly SOURCE has been highlighting the total inadequacies of the Australian Department of Health, Disability and Ageing's new Single Assessment System, which is mean "to simplify and improve aged care assessments." The...
Cameron McPherson: ‘The new law risks boxing providers into yesterday’s model’
Cameron McPherson, CEO of Medical & Aged Care Group, writes that Australia’s new Aged Care Act funds care delivery on a cost basis rather than on outcomes, rewarding activity over measurable gains in independence, connection and quality of life.
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