The Department of Health has released a new edition of its ‘Information for Aged Care Providers’ newsletter.

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Information for Aged Care Providers – Issue #2016/20 (.pdf)

We will be at the 2016 LASA National Congress this coming week on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th October.

If you are going to the conference at the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre come and say hi and get a demo of Manad Plus. We’ll be at stand number 59!

If you can’t make it to the conference, we can still arrange a demo so you can see our latest version of Manad Plus.

Call us on 1300 62 62 32 or email us at info@manad.com.au.

The Department of Health has released a new edition of its ‘Information for Aged Care Providers’ newsletter.

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Information for Aged Care Providers – Issue #2016/19 (.pdf)

The Minister for Health and Aged Care, Sussan Ley and Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, Ken Wyatt AM MP have welcomed the release of the Aged Care Complaints Commissioner’s first annual report today.

Ministers Ley and Wyatt congratulated Commissioner Rae Lamb on the report.

“The report shows that people – consumers, family, carers and loved ones – are speaking up when it comes to concerns about their aged care services and this is a good thing. The Government has been working hard to reform aged care and give consumers greater choice and control over their aged care services,” Minister Ley said.

“I’m pleased to see the results demonstrate that the Commissioner and her team continue to excel. It’s good to see that the overall percentage of complaints relating to aged care remains low, and a testament to the Commissioner’s team that the majority of complaints are finalised in under 30 days,” Minister Wyatt said.

Read more:

Aged Care Complaints Commissioner releases first annual report (.pdf)

1st October was the International Day of Older Persons.

The theme for 2016, Take a Stand Against Ageism, challenges everyone to consider ageism – the negative attitudes and discrimination based on age – and the detrimental impact it has on older people.

Read more:

UN – International Day of Older Persons
WHO – 1st October – Take a Stand Against Ageism

The Department of Health has released a new edition of its ‘Information for Aged Care Providers’ newsletter.

Read more:

Information for Aged Care Providers – Issue #2016/18 (.pdf)

Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, Ken Wyatt AM, MP has today announced the appointment of David Tune AO PSM to lead the Aged Care Legislated Review.

The changes announced to aged care in 2012 included a comprehensive review of the aged care sector in 2016-17. This review will inform ongoing reforms to aged care.

“Mr Tune is the ideal choice to lead this important work, due to his extensive work across economic and social policy reform agendas and his knowledge of the aged care system,” Minister Wyatt said.

“Mr Tune was Secretary of the Department of Finance between 2009 and 2014 and has also held senior positions in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Treasury.”

Read more:

David Tune to Lead Major Review of Aged Care Reforms (.pdf)

The Management Advantage office will be closed next Friday 30th September for the ‘day before the Grand Final Public Holiday’.

IMPORTANT: The Manad Plus Help Desk will be open on Friday 30th September.

The schedules for residential and home care fees and charges, as well as subsidies and supplements have been updated to take effect from 20 September 2016 in line with changes to the basic age pension and indexation rates. The new rates are now available and include:

• Maximum Basic Daily Fee (Residential Care) and Standard Resident contribution – including respite residents is $48.44
• Maximum Permissible Interest Rate (MPIR) will decrease from 6.01% to 5.76% for the period of 1 October 2016 to 30 December 2016.
• The Base Interest Rate remains unchanged at 3.75%.

Read more:

Australian Government Residential Aged Care and Home Care Supplements (.pdf)
Schedule of Fees and Charges for Residential and Home care – for care recipients that commenced care on or after 1 July 2014 (.pdf)
Schedule of Resident Fees and Charges for residents in care on 30 June 2014 (.pdf)
Indexation rates for Residential Aged Care and Home Care Packages and changes to the Maximum Permissible Interest Rate (MPIR)

A new guide to combining aged care services to assist approved providers manage their aged care places is now available on the department’s website.

This guide explains the process involved, and some important things approved providers should consider before making this business decision.

Read more:

New guide to combining aged care services
Guide to combining aged care services (.pdf)