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The coming aged-care reform, especially to home care packages after February 2017, is quickly bringing digital disruption into sharp focus. For some, the hard work of transformation to a ‘selling organisation’ is still a long way off, and it’s not ...

Nurses are at the frontlines in residential aged care and in caring for older people in their own homes. The ANMF states that there were more than 13,000 registered nurses and 11,000 enrolled nurses working in residential aged care in 2012. While the trend ...

As people live longer, more and more will end up in aged-care. The number of people in permanent aged care in Australia is expected to more than triple in the next 35 years, from 225,000 today to 700,000 in 2050. The ...

SAVINGS MEASURES Aged Care Provider Funding – further revision of the Aged Care Funding Instrument The government will achieve savings of $1.2 billion over four years through changes to the scoring matrix of the Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI) that determines the ...

Today’s aged-care providers are running highly complex businesses. In addition to residential care, they can include community care, property management and property development in their portfolios. Trish Hall discusses how IT systems now must not only manage day-to-day operations of care for active retirees, ...

There are heavy demands on organisations with limited resources; the right systems can provide the efficiency to meet the challenge. By Steve Liliopoulos Australia’s aged-care industry’s number one challenge is the country’s rapidly ageing population, the Community Services and Health ...

Aged care providers caught making false claims will face hefty fines under a federal government crackdown set to save the budget millions. Providers could face fines of $10,800 per offence if found making multiple and deliberate false claims under the ...

The Federal Court of Australia yesterday declared that the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency (AACQA) did not observe “requirements of procedural fairness” in reaching its findings against a number of Carinity Aged Care centres. Sanctions were placed on the provider in ...