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The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is an opportunity to create an improved system of aged care with better outcomes for frail aged people.
Last week’s hearings for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, introduced the leaders of some of Australia’s peak bodies, unions, consumer organisations and the Secretary to the Department, Glenys Beauchamp. In all 26 witnesses were called.
The Asia Pacific (APAC) region is ageing more rapidly than any in history[1]. And Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR) reveals that business leaders in the region view ageing as the most significant threat to their businesses over the next five years.
Today represents the practical start to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (RCACQS) where the Commissioners, the Honourable Richard Tracey AM RFD QC and Ms Lynelle Briggs AO, reiterated the terms of reference and outlined the key areas.
Many aged care providers have received letters requesting in-depth information for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety – with five years’ worth of data and information due for submission, it’s an enormous task.
The Royal Commission into the aged care industry will look at the quality of care provided to frail aged people and people living with disabilities in residential and home aged care.
The Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) Congress in Adelaide last week could not have better timed following the announcement in October of the Royal Commission into aged care quality and safety.
Watch Darrell Price, Grant Thornton’s Health & Aged Care National Head, as he shares his views on what the Federal Government needs to focus on in this year’s Budget to genuinely help – and incentivise – those in the sector, including the aged care, disability and general practice sub-sectors, so they can continue to provide solid, sustainable health care to those in the community.
New trends in financing aged care growth
The seven-year Technology Roadmap for Aged Care recently released by the Aged Care Industry Technology Council (ACIITC) talks about a technology enabled future for consumers, workforce and providers.
Australia’s rapidly ageing population has ensured that in recent times the challenges of retirement have never been far from the headlines.
After a four year-freeze on Medicare rebates any thawing will no doubt be welcomed by GPs and specialists. However as practices across Australia crunch the numbers it will quickly become clear the rebate defrost will not significantly add to the bottom line.