Your Care

Residential aged care

Residential Aged Care covers a range of services, payments, schemes and other programs dedicated to components of this type of care in Australia. The bulk of these are all provided by the Department of Health and Aged Care and are all available to the community.

Understanding what residential aged care is, why you might want or need it,and how to go about arranging it.

Places are funded by the Australian Government to assist with the cost of care and accommodation services for eligible people who can no longer live at home because of the effects of ageing, illness or disability.

Aged care homes are assessed against a list of standards which include health, care, safety and management.

Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACATs) Advise you on what type of Australian Government funded services you need to help you continue living in your home or whether you should enter an aged care home.

Takes calls from people who have any queries such as home and community care, daily fees, access to care and financial assistance.

This is needed before an aged care home is able to charge accommodation bonds or charges or receive concessional resident supplements.

Provides volunteer visitors to residents of aged care homes who are at risk of isolation from the general community.

You may be eligible to be a concessional resident if you cannot afford an accommodation bond or charge.

Includes information on the fees for residential care: accomodation bond, accomodation charge and daily care fees.

Some residential aged care facilities may offer you a higher standard of accommodation, food and services for an additional daily fee.

If you cannot afford to pay daily fees and accommodation payments due to financial hardship, you may not be asked to do so.