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Improving Consumer‐Centred Aged Care: Addressing Issues of Sustainability, Service Integration and Market Incentives

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  • Michael Woods
  • Grant Corderoy

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The Australian Government is preparing to implement its next tranche of reforms to publicly subsidised aged care services. While prompted by the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, this is also the next step in an ongoing program of improvement. System sustainability should remain a core concern, shared alike by consumers, providers, regulators and taxpayers. Some unfinished business should also be addressed. First, creating an integrated range of client‐centred services; second introducing market‐based incentives that empower residential care consumers to exercise choice and control and encourage competing providers to improve quality, safety and efficiency.

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  • Michael Woods & Grant Corderoy, 2021. "Improving Consumer‐Centred Aged Care: Addressing Issues of Sustainability, Service Integration and Market Incentives," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 54(2), pages 266-274, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ausecr:v:54:y:2021:i:2:p:266-274
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.12425
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