Aged Care Association Welcomes Discussion

New Zealand Aged Care Association Welcomes Discussions into the Aged Care Sector [NZ Aged Care Association]

New Zealand’s organisation representing aged residential care facilities welcomes today’s announcement from Grey Power, the Greens and Labour that they will hold nationwide discussions into the state of aged care.

The NZ Aged Care Association’s chief executive, Martin Taylor, said the association welcomes the discussions and looks forward to aged care providers and the NZACA being invited to attend the meetings.

Mr Taylor said that case studies associated with the meetings would highlight the difficulties that the sector faces on a daily basis.

“We need to ensure the best information is supplied at the meetings. It will be important that such concerns as the dependency thresholds for receiving care in the first place, the levels of funding around the country and what the funding has been designed to cover are all covered through these meetings,” Mr Taylor said.

“It will also be important for everyone to understand how we got to this point such as the lack of any funding increases between 2000 and 2004, how the present quality framework legislation was implemented in 2003 and how the contract between DHBs and providers was set in 2003,”Mr Taylor said.

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