After a couple of years of consultations, the ATO has finalised their position regarding GST and homecare packages. Except from cancelling some private rulings and now clarifying some grey areas, inconsistently managed by different operations, there is not much change from what is already the main practice: The invoices of an Approved Provider are generally [...]
Our first residential aged care clients in 2008 had nothing. Our first brochure appeared in 2011, it evolved as we continued our develop our communication, in absence of competitors, in explaining what we did. It has always been difficult. Our new 2018 brochure takes a less is more approach, especially when it comes to writing. [...]
Australia has two separately operated mega billion-dollar government departments, different legalisation, infrastructure, budgets, rules and reporting. However, both have the same agenda in terms of services, rights and control to the care recipient. Both are either consumer directed, or have a road map (ie residential aged care) to become consumer directed, with seamless funding linked [...]
There are several different approaches to CDC home care provision evident in the aged care marketplace. Here we explore the characteristics of 6 of the most common: 1. The Jobs & Care Approach Prior to deregulation, organisations were able to tender for home care packages, and were not required to disclose financial statements to their [...]
Home care package self management: The Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) and Home Care Packages Program (HCPP) primary purposes are to allow elderly Australians supported by Federal Government funds to stay safely in their own homes for longer. CHCP is composed of targeted services to individuals from organisations funded by the Government. Whereas, HCPP was [...]
