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Before you start, please tell us about yourself
5. What stakeholder category do you most identify with?
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Consumer
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Carer or other consumer representative
Consumer advocacy organisation
Consumer peak body
Carer peak body
Approved provider of residential aged care
Approved provider of flexible aged care
Approved provider of home care
Aged care provider peak body
Provider of private aged care or seniors accommodation
Aged Care Assessment Team/Service
Aged care worker
Health professional
Workforce association or union
Primary Health Network
State and territory government
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Lender or investor/financier
Other
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people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
veterans
people who live in rural or remote areas
people who are financially or socially disadvantaged
people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless
people who are care-leavers
parents separated from their children by forced adoption or removal
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people
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people with disabilities
people with dementia
other group
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6. Where does your organisation operate (if applicable)? Otherwise, where do you live?
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Australian Capital Territory
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All states and territories in Australia
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In a remote area
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In a metropolitan area or major city
Current arrangements
7. What works well under the current residential aged care allocation and places management model for consumers and/or providers?
Strengths of current arrangements for consumers
The consumer can choose the style and amenities that suits them.
They can 'shop' for the most appropriate placement.
They can 'shop' for the most appropriate placement.
Design principles for alternative allocation models
9. Are the proposed design principles appropriate?
Please elaborate on your response
Undecided, I would need to be more updated on the current procedures, my partner has been in care for 11 years
Model 1: Improve the ACAR and places management - Overall model
11. What are your views on the suggested improvements proposed under this model?
Views on model 1
Consider if residents are moved away from their support base
Model 1: Improve the ACAR and places management - Key design considerations
12. How can this model ensure/encourage adequate supply of and equitable access to residential aged care and residential respite care (aside from increasing funding or revising the funding model), including:
in rural, regional and remote areas and other thin markets?
encourage philanthropy, and small not for profit groups to apply
for consumers from vulnerable cohorts (such as Special Needs Groups, consumers with dementia)?
Their extra needs should be budgeted in their assessments
14. What other key changes could be made to the existing ACAR and/or places management arrangements to encourage a more consumer driven and competitive residential aged care sector?
Other key changes to ACAR
Limit profiteering by the suppliers of care
General views
42. Aside from the two proposed models, how else could we encourage greater consumer choice and a more consumer driven market in residential aged care?
Other models to consider
I believe it is up to the caregivers or advocates of care recipients to make the best choices for their charges. Poor standards are easily discernible to a trained eye, and would not be chosen
43. Do you have any other overall comments you wish to provide?
General comments
Simplify the process and the ongoing paperwork, multiple govt dept dealings, that would make everyones life easier