LGBTIQ+ Health Australia (LHA) provided comments in September to the Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs on the Aged Care Bill. LHA supports the development of a person-centred, aged care legislative framework.

In LHA’s submission, we called for the new legislation to properly cater to the diversity of older people, including:

• specifically identifying LGBTI people as a particular diversity group.
• calling for eligibility for aged care to extend to people under the 65 who experience early ageing as a result of a health condition, such as HIV.

We also proposed that the:

• proposed rights under the new Aged Care Act be directly actionable.
• Complaints Commissioner have the power make determinations which can be taken to the Federal Court for appeal/enforcement and/or allow individuals to take appeals to the Federal Court following termination of a complaint

To read this full submission, click/download here.