Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00106:section:5:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00106
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 5/24)
Character Range: 14507–17368

facilitate the maintenance of those persons in their own homes, and avoid their premature or inappropriate admission to long term residential care and thereby improve their quality of life.

6. The program shall be directed towards assisting—
    (a) persons living in the community who, in the absence of basic maintenance and support services provided or to be provided within the scope of the program, are at risk of premature or inappropriate long term residential care, including—
        (i) frail or at‑risk aged persons, being elderly persons with moderate or severe disabilities;
        (ii) younger disabled persons, being persons with moderate or severe disabilities; and
        (iii) such other classes of persons as are agreed upon by the Commonwealth Minister and the State Minister; and
    (b) the carers of those persons.

7. (1) Subject to sub‑clauses (3) and (4), a service is within the scope of the program if it provides or will provide basic maintenance and support to persons within the target population, being a service that provides or will provide one or more of the following—
    (a) home help or personal care (or both);
    (b) home maintenance or modification (or both);
    (c) food;
    (d) community respite care;
    (e) transport;
    (f) a community paramedical service;
    (g) community nursing;
    (h) assessment or referral (or both);
    (i) education or training for service providers and users (or both);
    (j) information;
    (k) co‑ordination; or
    (l) such other service as is agreed upon by the Commonwealth Minister and the State Minister.

(2) A capital facility is within the scope of the program if it is used or to be used for or in connection with the provision of any service within the scope of the program pursuant to sub‑clause (1).

(3) A service of the following kind shall be outside the scope of the program—
    (a) the provision of accommodation (including rehousing and supported accommodation) or a related support service; or
    (b) the provision of an aid or appliance.

(4) A service of the following kind shall be within the scope of the program but only to the extent and for the period that it is eligible for funding by virtue of sub‑clause 8 (2)—
    (a) a rehabilitative service directed primarily towards increasing a person's level of functioning;
    (b) a service providing direct treatment for acute illness (including a convalescent or post‑acute care service);
    (c) a service designed specifically for persons with the same disability other than a service provided to persons within the target population suffering from brain failure;
    (d) a service primarily for families in crisis; or
    (e) a palliative care service.

PART IV—PROJECTS

8. (1) Subject to sub‑clause (2), a project shall be eligible for funding pursuant to this agreement if it is—
    (a) a