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Why people are 'giving up' rather than fighting the aged care algorithm (opens the original)
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"The idea of an Independent Assessment Tool didn't drop from the sky, we didn't come up with it." "It was a very important recommendation of the Royal Commission into Aged Care." That's what the Minister for Health, Mark Butler, said at a press conference last Tuesday, when asked about the aged care algorithm, featured in our Four Corners investigation the night before. For clarity, the "Independent Assessment Tool", or IAT, that the minister refers to, is not the algorithm. It's the questionnai
50,000 removed from official aged care waitlist due to counting method change (opens the original)
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The federal government has changed the way it counts the number of people waiting for in-home aged care funding. As a result, more than 53,000 people who would have previously been counted have been taken off the official waitlist. Using the previous method, the number of people waiting for full funding would be higher than it was before the aged care royal commission was announced in 2018. A Four Corners investigation can reveal the true number of people waiting for full aged care funding at ho
Calls to ditch aged care algorithms - ABC listen (opens the original)
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More elderly Australians are missing out on care in their home after computer-based procedures putting the federal government under fresh pressure to re-design the scheme. Australia's leading expert in the field says the algorithm that determines funding levels should be ditched. The aged care classification algorithm has been mired in controversy since it was introduced in November.(Four Corners: Patrick Forrest) Melissa Clarke: More elderly Australians are missing out on care in their home aft
'Why are they making it so damned hard?': A blind 96yo vs the aged care algorithm (opens the original)
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The last time 96-year-old Audrey Staniland was assessed for in-home aged care funding was with a human clinician more than a decade ago. When her daughter applied for a reassessment late last year, hoping Audrey would receive a higher level of care, she knew a clinician would assess her, but would not make the final decision. Instead, a "classification algorithm" would be deciding the outcome, with the clinician unable to change it. The algorithm was introduced in November and has been mired in
Sean Dorney was a roaming ABC reporter. Now, just getting out of bed is a struggle (opens the original)
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Sean Dorney was a familiar face on Australian TV screens for three decades. As the ABC's long-time correspondent for the Pacific, he covered coups, elections and conflict. These days the news for Sean isn't good. Like nearly 100,000 other Australians, he's waiting on an assessment for aged-care funding. It could mean the difference between staying in his home or going into an aged-care facility. Sean's world changed dramatically about 10 years ago when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease
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