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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 contribute to the House of Representative’s Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport’s Inquiry into the Aged Care Amendment (Staffing Ratio Disclosure) Bill 2018 (the Bill).

The 2018/19 Federal Budget contains a large number of important measures to improve the lives of older Australians, which jointly constitute a significant, positive step towards better preparing Australia for our ageing population of the future.

COTA Australia provided brief comments to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into the accessibility and quality of mental health services in rural and remote Australia.

COTA Australia’s National Policy Manager Sue McGrath is an Ambassador for the 2018 National Advance Care Planning Week. In this episode of Radio COTA speak with Radio COTA about the importance of making an Advance Care Plan.

This Senate Inquiry is on an issue of importance to many older Australians - mobility scooters.  Indeed, Scooters Australia claimed in 2009 that the overwhelming proportion of mobility scooter users are in the 70+ age group and in fact, in the previous few years, most purchasers were aged over 80.