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Previous MinistersAugust 2008
29 August 2008
Record funding and support for ACT aged and community care
Over the next four years, the Australian Government will provide record funding and support of almost $300 million to the ACT’s 16 approved nursing homes and their 1,600 residents
28 August 2008
Care for Queensland Aged and Disabled to Top $1.2 Billion
The Australian and Queensland governments have reached an historic agreement to provide record funding to support services for vulnerable Queenslanders such as help at home, meals on wheels and community transport.
27 August 2008
Unannounced visits
Minister for Ageing, Mrs Justine Elliot detailed the Australian Government’s unannounced visits program for the nation’s nursing homes in Federal Parliament, saying they protected frail and aged Australians.
27 August 2008
Ministerial Statement on Unannounced Visits by the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency
Unannounced visits to nursing homes by the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency are important within the aged care sector where frail, elderly residents are cared for 24 hours a day and are often unable to speak out if they have concerns about their care.
27 August 2008
Care at home and in the community boosted by more than $1.4million.
Federal Minister for Ageing Mrs Justine Elliot today announced home and community care services for the elderly and people with disabilities in Western Australia had received an additional $1.4 million.
27 August 2008
Meals on Wheels Day: 15 million meals delivered a year
The Minister for Ageing, Mrs Justine Elliot has paid tribute to the 80,000 volunteers and workers who deliver about 15 million meals a year from 750 kitchens to frail aged and people with disabilities across Australia.
26 August 2008
Statement on Brighton Aged Care
The Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency has reduced the accreditation period of Brighton Aged Care in Adelaide as an outcome of a review audit conducted in early August.
24 August 2008
$3.6 million for hearing loss prevention research
The Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, today announced the Australian Government will fund $3.6 million to five separate groups for research into ways to prevent avoidable hearing loss
20 August 2008
Missing residents and infectious outbreaks – topics for discussion at Ageing Consultative Committee meeting
New reporting procedures on residents who inexplicably go missing from nursing homes and new measures on infectious disease outbreaks in facilities are among the topics for discussion at the Ageing Consultative Committee. It is the second meeting of the group which takes place in Canberra on 21 August.
20 August 2008
Three of nine nursing homes under sanction identified through Government’s unannounced visits program
In the last seven months, the Australian Government has imposed sanctions on nine nursing homes in Australia – with three identified as a result of unannounced visits.
20 August 2008
More transition beds operational – helping older Australians regain their independence
The Australian Government announced on 20 August another 66 transition care places - bringing the national total to 101 fully-funded places. The new places are in Victoria and NSW. The Government has committed to create 228 fully funded places under its $293.2 million transition care plan.
19 August 2008
Statement on Brighton Aged Care
The Federal Government has taken further action against an Adelaide nursing home
19 August 2008
Call for proposals to improve aged and community care for Indigenous Australians
The Australian Government this week calls for tenders to develop new workforce training to help Indigenous people working in aged and community care in the Northern Territory (NT).
15 August 2008
Elliot: Community Care and Nursing Homes – Providing Choice
Minister for Ageing Mrs Justine Elliot has defended the Federal Government’s support for community care, saying it helped older Australians remain independent and in their homes.
15 August 2008
Government Steps into Guarantee Future of Respite Care for South Coast
Residents in the south coast of NSW will continue to receive respite services and community care after the Australian government stepped in when a provider became insolvent.
15 August 2008
Royal College of Nursing Appointed to Help Administer Aged Care Component of the Workforce
The Royal College of Nursing Australia has been appointed to administer the $6.9 million aged care component of the Bringing Nurses Back into the Workforce program.
14 August 2008
Community aged care reaching those in need – AIHW Report
The Australian Government has welcomed an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report showing that nearly 56,000 people received help at home through community care packages.
12 August 2008
Brighton Aged Care in Adelaide
A senior Australian Government nursing officer was sent to Brighton Aged Care in Adelaide on August 11 to examine and observe the care of residents after a review audit by the independent Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency.
11 August 2008
Bridgewater update – Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency report
The Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, today said the Department of Health and Ageing and the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency will continue to monitor the care of residents in the Bridgewater Aged Care Service in Melbourne
11 August 2008
Call for nominations: 2009 Senior Australian of the Year
The process to select the 2009 Senior Australian of the Year is underway with nominations closing at the end of this month.
08 August 2008
Feros Village extension boosts aged care accommodation on NSW Far North Coast. .
With about 16 per cent of people in the Far North Coast of NSW aged over 65, the Minister for Ageing, Mrs Justine Elliot, has welcomed the opening of a major new extension to the Feros Village aged care facility at Bangalow today.
08 August 2008
Belvedere Park Nursing Home Revocation – AAT decision
Belvedere Park Nursing Home Revocation – AAT decision. - The Minister for Ageing, Mrs Justine Elliot, welcomed the decision by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) to affirm the Department of Health and Ageing’s revocation of official approved provider status for a Melbourne nursing home operator which failed a record 42 out of 44 care categories.
04 August 2008
Australian Government allocates funding for aged care at Exmouth Multi-Purpose Service.
The Australian Government Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, and the Western Australian Minister for Health, Jim McGinty today announced funding for the Exmouth Multi-Purpose Service.
04 August 2008
Osteoporosis prevention - a new picture emerges
Half of women and a quarter of men over the age of 60 in Australia will suffer a bone fracture with most injuries occurring in the hip, spine or wrist, new research shows.
03 August 2008
Marriage Increases Life Expectancy
Marriage is helping Australians live longer, the Federal Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot said today. New data analysis released by Mrs Elliot showed married male and female Australians live longer than life-long single people.