Gerard Rennick (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I just mentioned the money. It's an extra $496 million for an additional 10,000 home care packages and also another $25½ million to improve medication management, noting that this may also assist with reducing the use of chemical and physical restraints. There is another $10 million to increase support for dementia behaviour, management through advisory services and training for care workers. It goes on. Finally, the government is investing in another $4.7 million to help younger people to move from residential aged care to more-age-appropriate support. We've also set ambitious targets to stop, by the end of 2022, new younger people entering aged care.

Another plan by the government is to inject almost $50 million to assist residential aged-care providers in financial difficulty, especially those in regional, rural and remote areas and those affected by the bushfires. Grants from this new business improvement fund will be available to homes to help them become more financially viable, particularly through improvements to their business operations, by the end of February 2020. (Time expired)