2023 COVID-19 Aged Care Support Program

Overview

The purpose of the 2023 COVID-19 Aged Care Support Program grant opportunity is to assist providers to transition towards managing the costs of COVID-19 outbreaks as part of their business-as-usual arrangements. The Program will reimburse approved aged care providers to maintain preparedness for, and respond to, outbreaks in the 2023 calendar year. This will cover eligible expenditure incurred in managing direct impacts of COVID-19 to a maximum grant value per operational place for residential aged care providers, or numbers of home care packages for home care providers. The objective of the program is to:  • support the provision of safe and quality care for older Australians in their choice of care through regulatory activities, collaboration with the aged care sector and consumers, as well as capacity building and awareness raising activities. The intended outcomes of the program are: • consumers of Aged Care Services directly impacted by COVID-19 experience safe and quality care, and • the financial costs of managing direct impacts of COVID-19 are reduced for eligible Aged Care services.  To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.