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Download our printable 'Planning Your Care' information from the 'Starting a Home Care Package' page.

COTA Australia today outlined the five priority fixes needed to address well documented failures in aged care that should occur while the Royal Commission into aged care conducts further investigation of the sector.

The guide contains an overview of the legal issues research, definitions of key legal terms, suggested decision-making process for dealing with legal and ethical issues, a series of practice guides on the key legal issues raised in the research and references to relevant literature and resources.

The issues identified in this submission impact many older Australians and the measures outlined here to address these issues have the potential to improve the lives of a large and growing proportion of Australians.

COTA Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide this Pre-Budget submission of measures that we urge the Australian Government to implement as part of the 2020/21 Federal Budget.

The 'Measuring Quality and Consumer Choice in Aged Care' project sought to hear the views of older people about how they choose an aged care provider, their views on indicators of quality and what other information they would need to make choices.