title: Nursing Homes and Hostels Legislation Amendment Act 1987 (No. 72 of 1987), 5 June 1987.
abstract: Among other things, this Act amends the Australia National Health Act 1953 to include within its coverage nursing homes for disabled people, to authorize the competent minister to declare that a nursing home patient is no longer an approved patient, to authorize the minister to determine a standard ordinary care fee for each approved nursing home and set a formula for making this determination, to authorize the minister to determine standards to be observed for the provision of services in approved nursing homes and to withhold funds from nursing homes not meeting these standards, to authorize the minister to make advance payments of benefits to nursing homes, and to increase certain penalties relating to the provision of information by nursing homes.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001315:Australia; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004194:Disease; D005843:Geography; D006262:Health; D006798:Housing; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D001523:Mental Disorders; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011640:Public Policy; D012111:Residence Characteristics
keywords: Adult; Age Factors; Aged--legal aspects; Australia; Delivery Of Health Care--legal aspects; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Diseases; Geographic Factors; Handicapped--legal aspects; Health; Housing--legal aspects; Legislation; Mental Disorders--legal aspects; Oceania; Population; Population Characteristics; Residence Characteristics; Social Protection; Spatial Distribution