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ALRC 72
Services for people living in the community
Domiciliary nursing care benefit
Promoting quality aged care services
Current Commonwealth legislation
How individuals support older people
How the community supports older people
How local governments support older people
How State and Territory governments support older people
How the Commonwealth supports older people
Home and Community Care (HACC)
Aged care delivered in flexible or innovative ways
Addressing the special needs of older people
Principles that should inform the development of programs and policies
Principles that should inform the administration of the program
The Commission's recommendation
Legislation should be straightforward and easy to understand
What the discussion paper asks
What submissions say about the assessment system
Providing for the assessment process in legislation
The Commission's recommendations
Review of decisions about a person's eligibility for aged care services
What are the goals of the Commonwealth's access and equity and social justice programs?
Program strategies for achieving access and equity and social justice
People of non-English speaking backgrounds
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
People who live in rural or remote communities
How should social justice and access and equity be reflected in the new legislation?
The Commission's recommendations
Ensuring that services are affordable
Should the DNCB be called something else?
Are the eligibility criteria appropriate?
Barriers to people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities getting DNCB
Who should perform the assessment?
Review of decisions about DNCB
9. PROMOTING QUALITY AGED CARE SERVICES
Standards monitoring statements for residential care
User rights strategies in context
Practical measures to enhance the protection of rights
Setting out user rights outcomes in legislation
Charters of rights and responsibilities
Written agreements between service providers and consumers
A legal framework for funding support services
Information about aged care services generally
People need information about the aged care service they use
Service providers should be required to have an internal complaints mechanism
Information held by the Department about older people, services and service providers
Categories of final funding approval
Conditions of capital funding approval
Conditions for recurrent funding approval
How do services account for funding?
Powers of Commonwealth officers
Existing sanctions for non-compliance with funding obligations
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