Hybrid, privately funded care models in retirement villages should fall outside the remit of new Aged Care Act legislation, MinterEllison Partner Penelope Eden has told the latest issue of SATURDAY.
The Exposure Draft of the new Act has had many village and aged care operators concerned about the possibility of Commonwealth regulation extending into villages as they look to develop care hubs and other hybrid models of care, thanks to the inclusion of retirement villages in the definition of residential care home.
Find out why Penelope, who is the National Aged Care and Human Services Sector Lead at the law firm, thinks the current wording in the drafts suggests that private aged care in the village may not be regulated under the new Act – only in SATURDAY.
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