Cam Holland, CEO of Ryman Healthcare Australia, tells SATURDAY digital magazine aged care in Australia needs to change to meet future demand and cites the continuum of care model as an answer.
In response, Cam Ansell, Managing Director of aged care consultancy Ansell Strategic, said retirement villages can provide a substantial contribution to help address the nation’s aged care crisis.
“Our dependence on residential aged care facilities can be proportionately reduced through a more widespread adoption of the Continuum of Care approach, allowing providers to give high-quality, cost-effective care in the preferred environment of most older people.
“It would also enable us to focus our scarce clinicians on those people that require care in residential aged care facilities.”
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