A new report into aged care funding highlights a range of options to modify Australia’s residential care funding instrument. Minister for Aged Care, Ken Wyatt AM, said the Review of the Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI) would inform the Turnbull Government’s continuing aged care reforms. “We are determined to put residential care funding on a...
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The royal commission has heard the care delivered to a 70-year-old woman in the final weeks of her life was “inadequate” and described by her daughter as “a disgrace”. The commission heard the woman, who was referred to as DE during the proceedings, was struggling to breathe when her daughters came to visit her one...
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A disability carer stole almost $30,000 from her quadriplegic client over two years, but the judge said her cooperation with investigators and remorse meant her sentencing required “leniency”. According to a report by the ABC, Mackay District Court heard the theft was a “gross abuse of her position of trust” to her client, a...
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