1. LEADING CARE FOR OLDER AUSTRALIANS Glenn Rees, CEO Alzheimer’s Australia 20 August 2012

2. Looking forward, looking back
Living Longer Living Better is the first major reform to aged care since the 1980s
Consumer choice is still at the forefront of the reform agenda
Consumer advocacy organisations need to be more active

3. THEMES Priority areas:
Expansion of community care and particularly respite.
Empowerment of consumers through consumer directed care.
A commitment to serious monitoring of care outcomes.
Maintaining a focus on
dementia care.

4. COMMUNITY CARE
Administrative challenges

5. COMMUNITY CARE How many packages are needed?
The differences between the levels of care?
What services will be included?
The adequacies of the supplement for dementia care?
The relationship between packages, NRCP and HACC?

6. COMMUNITY CARE
The distribution of packages in 2020 as set out in Living Longer Living Better
54%
28% 9% 9%
Home Care Packages

7. CONSUMER DIRECTED CARE
Achieving cultural change in the sector
Empowering consumers
Respite ‘cashing out’ trial

8. QUALITY National set of quality indicators Transparency for consumers
Translating research into practice is a priority

9. DEMENTIA
Dementia has now been made a National Health Priority Area alongside other chronic diseases
For the first time in the history of Australian health policy, dementia will be addressed not only in aged care but in national health policy
A new focus on:
Timely diagnosis
Safer hospitals
Dementia risk reduction

10. INVESTMENT IN DEMENTIA RESEARCH
Government investment in dementia research through NHMRC was $24 million in Less than every other national health priority area other than asthma

11. FIGHT DEMENTIA CAMPAIGN
Living Longer, Living Better is the result of many years of advocacy and developing an evidence base
Reforms do not hold all the answers
Increased funding for dementia research

12. LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
Advocating for the expansion of community care and respite, empowerment of consumers, and a commitment to quality of care
Where will we be ten years
from now?