A single Charter of Aged Care Rights has been developed, which will replace the four Charters currently relating to the rights of aged care recipients in residential aged care, community care, and short-term restorative care settings.
Read more >The Department of Health has released an updated schedule of fees and charges for residential aged care and home care, including new Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI) rates.
Read more >The Maggie Beer Foundation has been awarded a $500,000 Federal Government grant to roll out an online skills-based training program for aged care cooks and chefs.
Read more >To celebrate the one year anniversary of Resident Manager, we look at how the software is helping residential aged care providers across Australia to manage their resident administration, funding and reporting processes.
Read more >The Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care, Ken Wyatt, has announced $15 million in funding will be allocated to existing Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) providers.
Read more >The Department of Health is investigating why some residential aged care beds allocated through the Aged Care Approvals Round have been deemed ‘offline’.
Read more >The Department of Health has released a report on the operation of Australia’s aged care system during the 2017–18 financial year.
Read more >Residential aged care providers from across Australia recently joined Telstra Health – Aged, Disability & Community Care (ADCC) at our Residential User Group Meetings. This year a key focus was on the introduction of the Aged Care Quality Standards, what it means for our clients and how our software can support the change.
Read more >Telstra Health has partnered with TechnologyOne to develop an integrated solution encompassing our resident administration and Medicare claiming software, Resident Manager, with TechnologyOne’s billing management capabilities.
Read more >The Federal Government has unveiled two grant programs designed to aid research into the intensive reduction and prevention of dementia.
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