Home Care Packages Program resources

This document provides answers to questions about the Fair Work Commission’s Stage 3 decision on the Aged Care Work Value Case which will deliver further increases to award wages for many aged care workers from 1 January 2025.

This fact sheet provides an overview and answers frequently asked questions about changes to Home Care Package administration and management charges, implemented 1 January 2023.

This fact sheet helps older people and their families and carers to understand the Home Care Packages Program.

This document is for home care providers to give to prospective care recipients. You must give this document to people on pre-1 July 2014 fee arrangements who intend to move to your service. It provides information about how moving to a new provider may affect a person’s fees.

This fact sheet outlines the fees you may be asked to pay for home care.

As a home care provider, you must include your prices for common Home Care Package services in a pricing schedule. This example shows what’s included in the schedule. You must include a copy of the schedule in all home care agreements.

This checklist can help home care providers change over to the new Home Care Package pricing arrangements. It includes a list of tasks and links to resources about Home Care Package pricing. The new arrangements started on 1 July 2019.

This scale is part of the Psychogeriatric Assessment Scales (PAS). Aged care providers can use this to test cognitive impairment of care recipients. It includes the questions and the scoring method.

PAS helps aged care providers to carry out psychogeriatric assessments for dementia and depression. You do not need extensive training to use it. To do a PAS assessment, you interview the care recipient and someone who knows the recipient well, such as a carer or relative.

This scale is part of the Psychogeriatric Assessment Scales (PAS). Aged care providers can use this to test cognitive impairment of care recipients. It includes the questions and the scoring method. It is suitable for people who are non-verbal, have reduced fine motor skills or visually impaired.

A handbook to assist home care package providers and carers in making decisions about the prevention and control of influenza. It forms part of the Influ-Info – Influenza Kit for Home Care.