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Implications for seniors and in-home providers crystalise a month into aged care act’s big moment. Cost gaps for clients and providers to mean diminished access and operational strain.
53,718 people vanished from Australia’s aged care waitlist after a methodology change, removed once interim 60% payments start, not full funding. Providers report clients waiting up to five months, with the missing 40% never backdated.
The Department of Health and Aged Care’s digital transformation spending spree continues with IT service management company Accenture securing a $289 million contract, amidst ballooning aged care reform costs.
Just as the aged care sector seemed to be on the same page, fully resigned to the challenges and opportunities associated with the 1 July implementation of the new Aged Care Act, the government threw a curveball.
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