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Aged Care Visitors Code updated and calls for access rights for ‘Partners in Care’

6 August 2021

Twelve aged care and consumer peak bodies have released an updated Industry Code for Visiting Residential Aged Care Homes during COVID-19, which ensures Australians living in residential aged care can safely receive visitors. The update is in line with latest AHPPC advice.

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COTA calls for stronger and more comprehensive protections for older people on World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

15 June 2021

Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia has today called on the federal, and all state and territory governments, to take stronger and more comprehensive action to protect older people, including urgent reform of power of attorney laws.

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Policy Alert No 18 Federal Budget 2021

10 June 2021

Aged Care Reform was the centrepiece of this year’s Federal Budget, both in policy and financial terms. Apart from aged care there are not huge gains in this Budget.

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Time For Talk on Mandatory Vaccination is over – Urgent action needed

4 June 2021

The Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia today called on all governments to move swiftly to implement in practice today’s decision to rapidly accelerate vaccination of all aged care workers and its “in-principle disposition” to move to mandatory vaccination requirements ASAP.

COVID Vaccinations, COVID19, influenza vaccinations

Older Australians to benefit from Budget’s employment and super reforms; consultation needed on support payments, retirement income

11 May 2021

Older Australians will benefit from measures aimed at increasing workforce participation and fixing retirement incomes, COTA Australia says, but support for vulnerable groups like renters is still missing and long-term solutions are needed to ensure vulnerable Australians are adequately supported.

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Council on the Ageing welcomes biggest investment in aged care in a generation

11 May 2021

COTA Australia tonight welcomed the very substantial package of measures in tonight’s Federal Budget that will fire the starting gun on a substantial overhaul of the aged care system over the next five years, supported by additional expenditure of $17.7 Billion over four years.

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Aged Care Visitors Code updated and calls for access rights for ‘Partners in Care’

COTA calls for stronger and more comprehensive protections for older people on World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

Policy Alert No 18 Federal Budget 2021

Time For Talk on Mandatory Vaccination is over – Urgent action needed

Older Australians to benefit from Budget’s employment and super reforms; consultation needed on support payments, retirement income

Council on the Ageing welcomes biggest investment in aged care in a generation