Aged Care Budget
Aged Care Budget 2001-2002
This page gives access to the 2001-2002 Ageing Budget for the Department of Health and Aged Care for the financial year 2001-2002 and to associated media releases and fact sheets.
- $10.8 million Continence Aids Assistance Scheme
- $6.1 million for culturally appropriate (ethnic) care
- $5.3 million for extended Community Visitors and Advocacy
- Day Therapy Centres
- $1.9 million for Extended Aged Care at Home (EACH)
- $1.2 million for Safe at Home
- $10.8 million dementia education, support and assessment
- $10.3 Carer Support Strategy
- $1.6 million cochlear implants
- $10 million for Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency checks of residential aged care services
- $7.6 million for information management for quality care
- $5 million for restructuring rural and urban fringe aged care homes
- $3.8 million for effective and responsive complaints handling
- Greater scrutiny of aged care homes funding claims
- Growth in funding: the real story
