In 2012, the government released a ten-year reform plan aimed at creating a sustainable, consumer-driven and market-based aged care system.
Many of the policy changes focused on packaged home care services, which provide support for older people who are eligible for residential aged care to remain in their own homes.
However, nearly 10 years later the impact of these reforms on older people and their carers, the aged care workforce and providers and wider health system remained unknown.
The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) is Australia’s national peak body for public and not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare providers.
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AHHA acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which we live and work. We acknowledge the significance of our Australian indigenous heritage; and that our indigenous peoples never ceded their lands or their culture. We reflect on the remarkable understanding that is generously shared by indigenous peoples; particularly framing health and wellbeing in a deeply holistic way that both encompasses people and place.
