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Australia to fund an extra 10,000 home aged care packages at cost of $850m
- ruby457
- Dec 16, 2020
- 1 min read
The Morrison government will fund a further 10,000 home care packages for elderly Australians at a cost of more than $850m in Thursday’s pre-Christmas economic update.
The increase in care packages follows a commitment in the October budget to fund 23,000 new packages at a cost of $1.6bn.
While the government has been increasing funding for in-home care ahead of the final pronouncements of the aged care royal commission in February next year, officials from the health department told a Senate committee in September that more than 30,000 elderly Australians had died before receiving home care packages for aged care in the past three years, despite being assessed as eligible.
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