The Campaign for Care of Older Australians (CCOA) has launched its ‘Grand Plan’ using John Safran and his radio partner Father Bob Maguire as its frontmen. The Grand Plan’s website is a portal that offers real time participation in CCOA’s campaign to improve Australia’s aged care industry. The website displays the same social networking savvy employed so effectively by Aged and Community Services (ACSA) in their kevin87 campaign.
The RVA fully supports this initiative as it believes that older Australians should be able to choose how and where they want to live and be well supported by affordable care delivered as it is needed. With chronic under-funding of community and residential aged care, much needs to be done to ensure that Australians can look forward to senior care services being there when they need them.
The Grand Plan is a way for everybody to lend their support to help ensure the call from government for an increase in support and funding that Australia’s rapidly ageing population needs.
The RVA is fully supportive of the Grand Plan as our industry plays a significant role in housing and caring for older Australians. As you may have read in our last news monitor, the RVA are currently working with the Productivity Commission and running an industry leaders’ ‘think tank’ to develop a framework of how our industry can be supported by government to supply housing and care for the ageing population.
The RVA believes we need to work more closely with the aged care industry to ensure that we support and provide relief as it becomes more and more under pressure to supply the beds and level of care that will be required for older Australians in the future.
“Local governments around the country have been busy approving a large number of retirement and aged care developments, which has been much needed,” said RVA CEO Andrew Giles.
Over the next few news monitors, the RVA will run a rolling series of examples where our industry is already providing solutions to fill the existing gaps identified by the government.
For further information and to help support the cause, please visit the ‘Grand Plan’ website.
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[...] Following on from the last edition of the RVA News Monitor, the RVA is showcasing examples where our industry is already providing solutions to fill the existing gaps identified by the government. The James and Jessie Brown Affordable Housing redevelopment at Mansfield Park is such an example, which built the project, directly aimed at housing disadvantaged South Australians. [...]