Work is underway on an impact analysis to understand potential implications of moving to an alternative model for allocating residential aged care places that encourages greater consumer choice. There will be upcoming consultation opportunities for you to have your say about possible alternative models.
The data was collected from 17,195 consumers living in 1,159 residential aged care services across Australia – covering about 43 per cent of all residential aged care services.
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Welcome to the first issue of 2019. This will be a busy year for all our readers with the Royal Commission and the introduction of the new standards for accreditation.
This edition focuses on one case with so many issues it is almost too difficult to comprehend. Each gap in care probably would not have led to the resident’s death, but together, the combination was fatal.
The case exemplifies the complexity of issues confronting the Royal Commission and highlights that improving aged care requires an approach that involves the whole community as evident by the recommendations made by the coroner to multiple organisations.
As foreshadowed at the preliminary hearing on 18 January 2019, the Royal Commission intends to publish background papers from time to time on issues relevant to the work of the Royal Commission.
A new network of aged care navigator centres, information hubs and specialist advisers aims to streamline aged care access, with a $7.4 million national trial being rolled out from today by the Morrison Government.
Launched under the Aged Care System Navigator initiative, the three new trial programs will offer face-to-face assistance to senior Australians and their families in every state and territory, including selected rural and remote areas.
The trials will also offer some services over the phone or online to maximise the reach of the trials and test the way in which these services can offer meaningful support to people navigating the aged care.
“Navigators will target senior people in need, especially those facing language or other difficulties, to help ensure they receive support and information,” said Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Ken Wyatt AM.
The Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care, the Hon Ken Wyatt AM, MP recently sent all home care providers a letter with information on upcoming improvements to home care pricing transparency and comparability.
The letter and fact sheet outlined the changes to be introduced in April 2019. These include the implementation of a standardised Home Care Pricing Schedule (the Schedule) and changes to administration costs. All home care providers must complete the Schedule by 1 July 2019.
Did you miss the 2nd week of Hearings at the Royal Commission?
A copy of each day’s transcripts and the witness list can be found below.
Research has been designed to collect views and experiences from a range of audiences, including health professionals, with links to the aged care system in Australia.
A key measure includes the perceived role, and level of success, of My Aged Care in enabling health professionals to support their patients to access aged care services.
A new national framework issued today will ensure that aged care recipients receive the best possible assistance from the Australian Government-funded advocates acting on their behalf.
The new National Aged Care Advocacy Framework outlines objectives, guiding principles and target groups for our Government’s National Aged Care Advocacy Program (NACAP).
The framework will ensure that people in all states and territories have access to consistently high quality, independent and free support from NACAP, if they need help with an aged care issue.
It is another example of our Government’s commitment to ensuring senior Australians receive uniformly high quality care from our aged care system.
As everyone continues to learn more about the new Aged Care Quality Standards and what is going to be expected from 1 July 2019, we will be conducting a ‘Roadshow’ at several different venues.
Angelika Koplin from Aged Care Strategies and Support will also be presenting and sharing her knowledge on the new rules and what you need to be prepared for come 1 July.
We hope by the end of the session you will leave with a better understanding of what you need to do over the next few months as we count down to 1 July. As well as hearing some great ideas about how best to engage with your ‘consumers’, how best to train and inform your ‘workforce’ as well as tools that may be of use and that you had not thought of. And most importantly, are you using Manad Plus to best effect to support you in documenting what you are doing so evidence is only a click away.
If you would like to attend one of these sessions then please contact your dedicated Manad Plus Client Manager via phone (1300 62 62 32) or their personal email to book who will be attending from your Organisation and which session. Your Client Manager will also be calling (if you haven’t already spoken) to ensure you don’t miss out on this great opportunity.
Please also don’t hesitate to get in touch with your Client Manager if you need support or have suggestions for new features you would like us to look at. Your Client Manager is here to help and support you and your staff wherever they can to ensure you are getting the most out of Manad Plus and using all the features as they were designed.
We look forward to seeing all of you at one of our Roadshows.
(Note: This is not a prescribed template and you can undertake a self-assessment in your preferred format).
The National Aged Care Quality Indicator Program started on 1 January 2016 as a voluntary program for Commonwealth subsidised residential aged care services.
From 1 July 2019, all Commonwealth subsidised residential aged care homes must collect and provide clinical quality indicator data to the Department of Health.
c) using an in-house system.
Last week the Royal Commission commenced the first week of hearings.