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AGED CARE ACT 1997 - SECT 41.3

Meaning of residential care

  (1)   Residential care is personal care or nursing care, or both personal care and nursing care, that:

  (a)   is provided to a person in a residential facility in which the person is also provided with accommodation that includes:

  (i)   appropriate staffing to meet the nursing and personal care needs of the person; and

  (ii)   meals and cleaning services; and

  (iii)   furnishings, furniture and equipment for the provision of that care and accommodation; and

  (b)   meets any other requirements specified in the Subsidy Principles.

  (2)   However, residential care does not include any of the following:

  (a)   care provided to a person in the person's private home;

  (b)   care provided in a hospital or in a psychiatric facility;

  (c)   care provided in a facility that primarily provides care to people who are not frail and aged;

  (d)   care that is specified in the Subsidy Principles not to be residential care.


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