Residential care for aged and disabled
When it comes to NDIS provider payments (and care payments in general) we're constantly striving to increase payment governance while continuing our mission to simply, if not totally eliminate administration burdens from all involved in care. NDIS payment problems and delays can arise for many reasons - non-approval being a common issue. Approvals are a [...]
In the wake of Covid-19, many retailers are encouraging consumers to use contactless payments rather than physical cash. Even prior to Covid-19, cash was on the way out in aged care and the health industry, due to the: direct costs of managing cash, in bank costs and administration indirect costs of staff time in managing [...]
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. [...]
NDIS meets Aged Care 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, [...]
Home care is already 100% consumer directed care (CDC), with funding and choice sitting with individuals with home care packages. Both the Department of Human Services and industry associations inform us that Residential CDC is now being planned. As a result a ‘Road Map’ has been developed and research funded to inform us of what [...]
