The Aged Care Financial Sustainability Summit was held in June, where the Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA) brought together 43 organisations representing consumers, aged care providers, unions, experts, and Government bodies to find solutions to address the insufficient funding of Australia’s aged care system, now and in the future.

DCM Institute Executive Director James Wiltshire represented DCM Group at the Summit in Canberra and subsequently wrote a paper for ACCPA advocating that Plan B has to be considered to improve the inadequate funding of aged care.

DCM Group’s Plan B simply proposes those people entering aged care wh