Analyst predicts 30,000 home care packages in budget

Published 11th May 2021

The Federal Budget will contain funding for 30,000 home care packages and residential daily living services, a leading aged care economist predicts.

Grant Corderoy, senior partner at accounting firm StewartBrown, told an industry briefing in Sydney on Tuesday night that as far as aged care funding is concerned next week’s budget will have “more than we’ve seen before but less than we’d probably like to see”.

Part of that will be funding for more home care packages, he said. “I expect there will probably be 30,000 new home care packages,” Mr Corderoy said.

To read the full article, please visit the Australian Ageing Agenda website.

Source:
Sandy Cheu, 2021, Australian Ageing Agenda (https://www.australianageingagenda.com.au)