Government initiatives to speed up aged care assessments
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by DPS
Elderly Australians waiting to receive aged and community care will get faster services under two major measures announced by the Commonwealth Government.
They are:
- the introduction of Federal legislation to reduce unnecessary reassessments by the national care teams, which will cut red tape for older Australians and assessors; and
- a $72.16 million funding indexation injection to the states and territories for the Aged Care Assessment Program for 2008-09.
