Aged Services

The Brumby Government invests more in aged care than any other state.

The Government’s aged care programme includes:

• Operating 194 state public sector residential aged care facilities across Victoria;
• Funding the Home and Community Care (HACC) Programme;
• Providing services and programmes for senior Victorians like the Seniors Card and the annual Seniors Festival; and
• Improving and integrating health and community care services for older Victorians

Other initiatives include:

• Free public transport travel for seniors on Sunday.
• 18,255 Personal Alert pendants for seniors provided that, if pressed, trigger a phone call from the Response Center to nominated family or friends, or an ambulance.
• Piloting a program to give not for profit aged care providers access to surplus government land for additional high care residential aged care beds that has already resulted in plans for 90 place centers in Preston and Coburg.
• $44m over four years to expand Victorian Home and Community Care, providing in-home support services.