Aged care consultant Paul Sadler says the user-pay model for aged care which is being proposed by the government may be received “fairly positively”.
Wealthy baby boomers could be asked to contribute more to aged care costs, as part of a shake-up of funding for the sector.
“The aged care sector has been crying out for more sustainable funding support for a number of years now,” he told Sky News Australia.
“The financial position of certain aged care services deteriorate to the point where two thirds are now running in deficit.
“But we need to do something, and this set of proposals, which we haven’t seen the details of yet, but it looks very likely that the aged care taskforce has come up with proposals that will ask older people who can afford to, to contribute more.”
(SKY NEWS)
