Advice to Aged Care Providers and Policymakers

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is taking a broad view of its terms of reference. It has shown its impatience with the slow reforms to quality and financial reporting.

Increasing use of automatically-measured quality data seems likely. This might help detect merging threats, such as antibiotic-resistant infections.

Restrictions on complex financial structures, and greater public availability of financial data, seem inevitable.

Australian Projections has been closely involved in aged care research. We can help providers and industry associations respond to proposed changes.