What would be changed through the third Aged Care Reform?

The Aged Care reforms create a better aged care system to give older people more choice and control and easier access to a range of aged care services. What would be changed through the third Aged Care Reform? Ivan Wong, who is the director of CASS Home Ageing Services, explained the changes in details.

Aged Care Reform Source: SBS

The third round of changes, Increasing Choice in Home Care, starts on 27 February 2017. The changes include:

 

removal of home care places and the Aged Care Approvals Round (ACAR)

home care packages assigned directly to the care recipient

removal of broadbanded levels of home care, to a specific level of care

a new national system for prioritising access to care

home care package portability, allowing care recipients to change providers

unspent home care amounts move with the care recipient to the new provider, or are paid to the care recipient or their estate and the Commonwealth if they leave home care