The census presents the results of a comprehensive national data collection of Day Therapy Centres and their care recipients. The Day Therapy Centre Program subsidises a range of therapies for frail older people living in the community and for residents of Australian government funded residential aged care. Therapies include physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and...

Transcript of address by Patricia Reeve, Executive Director, National Policy Secretariat, COTA. The author re-visits some endemic issues in the community and the service system, in the hope we can draw on previous learning, in aged care, disability services and consumer participation to inform new initiatives in a changing environment. In this address the author...

This review was Australia's first national consultation with people with disability, their families and service providers. Overview For much of Australia's history there was no national program of disability service provision. This changed with the election of the Whitlam government, which passed the Handicapped Program Assistance Act 1974, funding non-government organisations to provide housing or...