Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00415:reg:8a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C00415
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8A
Character Range: 8987–10668

8A  Flexible care—short‑term restorative care
  For paragraph 21‑4(c) of the Act, a person is eligible to receive flexible care in the form of a single episode of short‑term restorative care (the proposed episode) only if:
 (a) the person is assessed as experiencing functional decline that is likely to be reversed or slowed through short‑term restorative care; and
 (b) the person is at risk of losing independence to such a degree that, without short‑term restorative care, it is likely that the person will require home care, residential care or flexible care provided through a multi‑purpose service; and
 (c) the person is not receiving residential care, home care through a Commonwealth home care package, or is not in an episode of transition care; and
 (d) the person is not on leave from a residential care service or a flexible care service through which the person is receiving flexible care in the form of transition care; and
 (e) the person would not be assessed as eligible to receive flexible care in the form of transition care if the person applied for flexible care in the form of transition care; and
 (f) the person has not, at any time during the 6 months before the date of assessment, been in an episode of transition care; and
 (g) the person has not, at any time during the 3 months before the date of assessment, been hospitalised for a condition related to the functional decline mentioned in paragraph (a); and
 (h) the person is not receiving end of life care; and
 (i) in receiving the proposed episode, the person will not have received more than 2 episodes of short‑term restorative care in any 12 month period.

Part 3—Limitation of approvals