Thea Caldbeck-Moore and Wendy Hora have been together for 40 years.
Ms Hora is now her partner s carer, as Ms Caldbeck-Moore waits in line to be approved for a home care package.
“I would love it to materialise tomorrow because we ve needed this package way back in August when Thea first had her brain injury,” Ms Hora told SBS News.
“The tumour has upset her executive function, so she doesn’t cope very well with day-to-day tasks.”
Wendy and Thea at home.
SBS News
While the pair are hopeful about the budget commitment to more home care packages, they re also cynical.
Catholic Health Australia
Catholic Health Australia has welcomed the Federal Government’s formal response to the Royal Commission in Aged Care calling the $17.7 billion package a landmark moment for older Australians.
CHA is part of the Australian Aged Care Collaboration (AACC), which represents more than 1,000 providers, which tonight congratulates the Government on accepting 126 of the Royal Commission’s 148 recommendations.
After 20 government reviews in 20 years, this Budget, and the government’s response to the Royal Commission’s recommendations, finally addressed many of the challenges facing aged care.
CHA said the suite of measures will enable more Australians to be cared for in their home, increase the number of care minutes and provide more training for carers and the incentives for them to stay.
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Aged Care RC falls short on meaningful reform
After two years of often harrowing evidence from 450 witnesses and 10,000 submissions, the Royal Commission’s multi-page report has fallen short on a clear path to lasting and meaningful reform.
First, the report failed to spell out how much its reforms will cost, only that aged care will be more expensive than the predictions made in any of the multiple intergenerational reports before it. This inability to provide a proper costing makes it difficult for society and government to assess what is financially viable and what is not.
Second, the report fails to deliver a clear consensus on a way forward. Commissioners Tony Pagone and Lynelle Briggs disagreed on nearly a third of their recommendations, most notably on governance and funding.
âInefficientâ to fund aged care through superannuation: Retirement review chairman
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The chairman of a historic review into the retirement sector wants more people to be forced to pay for their own aged care but has rejected an industry push to reserve a portion of superannuation for these costs.
Retirement Income Review chairman Mike Callaghan, chair of the Aged Care Financing Authority from 2018 to 2020 and former chief of staff to Peter Costello, said ring-fencing a portion of super solely for aged care would be âinefficientâ.