On 4 July 2019, Berrington Care Group Pty Ltd and Berrington Group Pty Ltd went into voluntary administration. Berrington is a well-known provider of residential aged care to the premium end of the Perth market, and its voluntary administration has attracted...
The Aged Care Amendment (Movement of Provisionally Allocated Places) Bill 2019 (Bill) was introduced into the House of Representatives on 24 July 2019. The Bill proposes to amend the Aged Care Act 1997 (Act) to enable the Secretary of the Department of Health (or...
On 13 August 2019 the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 (WA) was read for the second time in Parliament. So how will it work? The Bill proposes that to be eligible to access voluntary assisted dying, a person must: have reached 18 years of age and have decision...
The administering body of a retirement village has an obligation to establish appropriate procedures for consulting with residents on various matters under the Fair Trading (Retirement Villages Interim Code) Regulations (No. 2) 2018 (“RV Code”). These matters include:...
‘Brokerage’ is a term frequently used by home care providers. In our experience it has become a term used to describe a number of situations in which providers use a third party to deliver services to a care recipient (ie client). In truth, an approved provider who...
Not-for-profit organisations from time to time seek advice from us before embarking on an exciting new commercial or income-generating venture. Often, they are prompted to seek advice because they are concerned with ensuring that they do not compromise their...
Betty Quayle was 89 years of aged when she died on 31 May 2013. Mrs Quayle resided at an aged care residential facility in Cairns. Resident A also resided at the same aged care residential facility. Resident A was 74 years old and suffered from cognitive impairment,...
This discussion comes about because (legal definitions aside for the moment) to many ageing persons and/or their family, at its most basic level a retirement community might be little more than: a community of retired people; accommodated within a complex that is:...
In this article, we cover the Community Titles Act 2018 and Strata Titles Amendment Act 2018. In the culmination of a review of WA’s strata titles legislation that commenced back in 2007, the Community Titles Act 2018 and Strata Titles Amendment Act 2018 have passed...
The retirement village industry in WA will be aware that a code of practice is prescribed in respect of retirement villages from time to time. Although the existence of such a code is expressly recognised in the Retirement Villages Act 1992 (WA), it is in fact...