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This definition applies to all payments.
Please refer to the definition of this term in the SSAct.
Aged care homes that provide high level residential care are often referred to as nursing homes. High (nursing home) level care homes provide care for people with a greater degree of frailty than those receiving low level care (1.1.H.90), and who often need continuous nursing care.
For the purposes of the SSAct, a person receiving high (nursing home) level care in an Australian Government funded aged care home, approved under the Aged Care Act 1997, is defined as being in residential care (1.1.C.25). This means that the care situation provisions may be applied to high level care residents.
Policy reference: SS Guide 4.6.3.70 Exempting the Principal Home - Care Situations
A nursing-home type patient, within the meaning of the Health Insurance Act 1973, of a hospital may be considered to be 'residing in a nursing home'.
Act reference: SSAct section 13(8) Unless the contrary intention appears…
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Last reviewed: 3 May 2010
