Better health and ageing for all Australians

Ageing and Aged Care Statistics

3. Fees, Payments and Financial Information

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Accommodation Bond Refund Interest Rates Information on aged care home accommodation bond refund interest rates.

Accommodation Bond Retention Amounts Information on aged care home accommodation bond retention amounts.

Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care - Fact Sheets This page contains a number of papers related to pricing of residential aged care facilities.

Australian Government subsidies and supplements Information on the aged care subsidies and supplements rates of payment (updated 3 times a year).

Australian Government's Final Response to the Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care ('Hogan Review') - 8 May 2007 The Government's initial and final responses to the Hogan Review, updates on key initiatives and key initiatives already put in place by the Australian Government that relate to issues identified in the Hogan recommendations.

CACP, EACH and EACHD care recipient contribution rates effective 20 March 2011 The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) recently announced new pension rates that will take effect from 20 March 2011.

Care recipient contributions and subsidies for community care packages and consumer directed care Care recipient contributions and subsidies for CACP, EACH, EACH Dementia and Consumer Directed Care.

Changes to residential aged care fees and charges for same-sex couples from 1 July 2009 Fact sheet outlining how the implementation of same-sex law reforms effect residential aged care fees and charges for people in same-sex relationships and their dependent children.

Changes to the aged care assets test - Gifted assets and Income Streams Information about the Gifted assets and Income Streams - changes to the aged care assets test.

Conditional Adjustment Payment (CAP) Information about the CAP, a significant payment available to eligible approved providers of residential aged care in Australia.
Financial unit record data from aged care providers' GPFRs This page provides access to de-identified financial performance data sets as a service to the residential aged care industry to allow providers to benchmark their performance against other comparable providers.

Maximum Bond and Charge Interest Rate The maximum interest rate chargeable on accommodation bonds paid.

National Respite for Carers Program - Respite services funding This document provides details of the NRCP respite services funding at 30 June 2011.

Previous Residential Care Fees and Charges Advices Archive of residential care fees and charges.

Projected costs of fall related injury to older persons due to demographic change in Australia: report to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. Canberra: New Directions in Health and Safety A report identifying the national economic impact of falls and falls related injury for older Australians as a result of population change.

Resident appraisal and reviews 2006-2010 From this page you may access tables with details of Resident Classification Scale reviews (June 2006 – December 2008) and Aged Care Funding Instrument appraisals and reviews (from June 2009).

Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care - Fact Sheets Fact sheets on the Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care.

Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care - Full Report The pricing review of residential aged care examines the longer term prospects of residential aged care services with particular respect to future arrangements for private and public funding, performance improvement in the industry and longer term financing.

Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care - Summary of the Report Summary of the report of the pricing review of residential aged care.

Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care- Australian Government's response Details of the Australian Government's response to the Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care.

Review of the Aged Care Funding Instrument The ACFI has been developed to better match funding to the complex care needs of residents; reduce documentation; and achieve higher levels of agreement between aged care staff and departmental review officers in review audits.

Schedule of resident fees and charges This page provides the latest updates to the schedule of fees and charges.

Summary of discretionary grants A summary of one-off grants for community organisations providing assistance to frail, older, socially isolated people, dispersed by the Government to community organsiations nationally in 2007-08.

Testing the distribution of first 33,000 ACFI appraisals This report describes the investigation of the first 33,000 ACFI appraisals.

Viability Funding - 1999 ARIA scores for locations The Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA) provides an indicator of the accessibility of services for the locality.

Zero Real Interest Loans Results Zero Real Interest Loans: Results of Round One and Round Two.

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