Residential Aged Care Funding

Funding regimes and the implications for delivering quality palliative care nursing within residential aged care units in Australia.

INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND Funding to Australian residential aged care units has undergone recent reforms. Parallel with these fiscal developments, the Australian Government commissioned the Guidelines for a Palliative Approach in Residential Aged Care that addressed the inequities of service associated with dying in residential aged care. AIMS This literature review describes the variances i...

Consistency and Adjustment of Funding for Nursing and Personal Care in Residential Aged Care Facilities

Residential Aged Care Funding: Third Report

Embedded Incentives in the Funding Arrangements for Residential Aged Care in Australia

We examine the Australian Government’s role in the market for residential aged care in Australia and consider its impact on the incentives of market participants. We find that, due to the structure of the funding arrangements, providers are likely to have an incentive to discriminate against high-care residents, in favour of low-care residents. Since high-care residents, unlike low-care residen...

The benefits of introducing electronic health records in residential aged care facilities: A multiple case study

PURPOSE Information and communications technology solutions have been introduced into the residential aged care system in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of aged care, however to date, the actual benefits have not been systematically analysed. The aim of this study was to identify the benefits of electronic health records (EHR) in residential aged care services and to examine ...