New legislation: financial and bond protection for aged care residents
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by DPS
The Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliott, said the Commonwealth Government will introduce legislation to provide further protection for the 170,000 older Australians in the nation’s nearly 3,000 aged care homes.
Mrs Elliot announced a range of measures, including that accommodation bonds or like payments paid by older Australians for entry into aged care, are further protected under the Accommodation Bond Guarantee Scheme.
The Aged Care Amendment (2008 Measures No. 2) Bill 2008, provides the most extensive changes to the aged care regulatory regime in 10 years, and is the first broad change to the Aged Care Act under the Labor Government.
