Consumer Directed Care

Imagine if you had an extra $892.31 every 31 days to spend on your care?

$892.31 worth of extra care and support every 31 days is not to be sneezed at. How could your life be easier or more joyful with that extra money to spend on your care?

When I say my […]

Last week a number of friends texted and emailed me to ask:

“I saw in the media that elderly people are getting slugged an Exit Fee – of $4,153 ^[1] just for leaving the current provider of their Home Care Package. Kate, is that really […]

5 May 2017 Update: This week the Old-School Approved Provider who said, “Kate, you are wrong” (see below) agreed to refund two clients the following secret, undisclosed, hidden Home Care Package fees:

Client 1 – $4,589.76

Client 2 – 4,620.28

of secret undisclosed hidden Home Care Package fees.

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If you are already in receipt of a Government Subsidised Home Care Package then you would have recently received a letter from the Federal Government via My Aged Care that looks like this: Essentially this letter is saying:

• From the 27^th February 2017 your Home Care Package is

A new national system for prioritising access to home care has now been established. The new system will allow home care packages to be assigned to consumers according to:

• their relative needs
• how long they have been waiting for care.

The department has started releasing home care packages through the new system, with approximately 11,300 packages scheduled […]