Residential Aged care

Personal care or nursing care, or both personal care and nursing care, that is provided to a person in a residential aged care facility in which the person is also provided with:

(a) meals and cleaning services; and

(b) appropriate staffing, furnishings, furniture and equipment for the provision of that care and accommodation;

but 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 psychiatric facility (refers paras 11.12 and 11.14);

(c) care provided in a residential facility that primarily provides care to people who are not frail and aged (refer para 11.13).