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Collateral damage
— Australian carers' services caught between aged care and disability care reforms | | Author(s) | Ara Cresswell |
| Journal title | International Journal of Care and Caring, vol 1, no 2, June 2017 |
| Publisher | Policy Press, June 2017 |
| Pages | pp 275-279 |
| Source | http://policypressco/journals/international-journa... |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Physical disabilities ; Social security benefits ; Costs [care] ; Social policy ; Australia. |
| Annotation | In Australia, there are some 900,000 prin=mary carers, one third of whom provide more than 40 hours of care a week; 60% have been caring for more than five years. One third also live with some form of disability themselves. 72% of primary caerrs (and 63&% of all carers) rely on a welfare benefit as their main source of income. in 2015, weekly median income was AU$520, which was 42% lower than that of non-carers. Until recently, the national, state and regionally funded House and Community Care (HACC) programme provided basic support services for those eligible. Now, all aged care funding has been transferred to the national government. Coupled with this, has been the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Service (NDIS), the effect of which has reduced access to carer services. This article lists the disability requirements of NDIS, the aim of which was to empower those aged under 65 with disabilities; however, its rules are such that carers are not participants. The 2015/16 Federal Budget announced an initiative to provide Integrated Carer Support Plans, which could provide funding, but it is unclear whether this will materialise. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170728246 A |
| Classmark | P6: BN: JH: QDC: TM2: 7YA |
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