Fees and Charges
Aged Care Fees and Charges
Residents are asked to pay fees and charges when they enter residential aged care. The fees and charges are designed to ensure that residents make a fair contribution, based on their means, towards their daily living costs and accommodation, just as they would living elsewhere in the community.
Aged Care Reforms – as at 20 March 2008
This page contains a collection of information and information sheets that provide details in relation to Reforms in Aged Care from 20 March 2008.
Media releases
- Delivering More Aged Care Places For Eastern Melbourne
- $25 Million for accommodation for aged and disadvantaged
- Christmas message – remember to check in on your elderly relatives and neighbours
- 6,500 more aged care places for older Australians
- $800,000 boost for Home and Community Care in NT
Program/Initiatives
- Aged Care Access Initiative
- Aged Care GP Panels Initiative - Information for Residential Aged care Facilities on how to get involved
- Aged Care GP Panels Initiative - Information for GPs and Allied Health Providers on how to get involved
- The Aged Care GP Panels Initiative
- Medication Management Reviews
Publications
- Guide to changes to the Regulatory Framework for Aged Care
- Report on the Operation of the Aged Care Act 1997 - 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008
- 2007 National Aged Care Workforce Census and Survey – Who Cares for Older Australians? A Picture of the Residential and Community Based Aged Care Workforce – Final Report
- Gastro-Info Gastroenteritis Kit for Aged Care: resources to assist residential aged care homes in preventing, identifying & managing outbreaks of gastroenteritis