Published: November 24, 2019
Scott Morrison says new measures are ‘initial response’ to royal commission interim report
The Morrison government will spend an extra $537m on aged care to address three priority areas identified by the scathing royal commission interim report: a massive shortage of home-care packages, overuse of chemical restraint, and removing younger people in aged care.
The majority of the package ($496.3m) will be spent on 10,000 home-care packages, with the rest spent on improving medication management to reduce use of chemical restraints ($25.5m), extra dementia training ($10m) and measures to speed up targets to remove younger people from aged care ($4.7m).
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