Financing Aged Care

This is a submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, made on behalf of consumers.

We share the Commission’s position that there should be universal access to aged care for all Australians. Funding should be provided by the nation, with contributions from those able to make them while in aged care.

A monitoring system introduced in 2017 for home care showed high numbers of persons not receiving care. A similar monitoring system is needed for residential aged care.

Quality control by a strong central agency is needed. To reduce costs and fraud, much of this control should be by automated monitoring.

Financial control by a strong central agency is needed to reduce risks of provider failures. The Department of Health is failing in this role.