Navigate the very significant changes to the regulatory system of aged care accommodation that has been introduced by the Aged Care Act 2024 in this advanced workshop tailored for legal professionals. Gain a comprehensive overview of the new regulatory framework, including the updated rights and principles, residential care home impacts, and the role and responsibilities of ‘Responsible Persons’. Explore how these reforms affect funded aged care services, retirement villages, and succession matters. Explore both the Act and its implications. Presented by leading expert, Arthur Koumoukelis, recognised as Lawyer of the Year for Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law in Sydney (2025)
Description
Attend and earn 2 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
9.30am to 11.45am Aged Care Act 2024: Navigating the New Regulatory Landscape
- The Reforms Examined: Aged Care Act (2024) and Aged Care Rules
- Understanding Statements of Rights and Statement of Principles
- Navigating the Aged Care Code of Conduct
- Funded aged care services
- Service types
- Registered providers – categories
- Quality Standards
- Support at home and residential care homes
- Navigating the Main Impacts on Residential Care Home
- Definition of 'residential care home' and removal of allocated places
- Liquidity standards
- HELF agreements – additional services and extra services
- Security of tenure
- Subsidiaries and other businesses
11.00 to 11.15am Break
- Understanding Responsible Persons Duties and Responsibilities
- Suitability matters
- Statutory duties
- Civil penalties and disqualifications
- Funded Aged Care Services – Home and Community
- 'Home and community settings'
- Impacts/interrelationship with Retirement Village communities
- Registration of providers
- Other forms of settings: land lease, strata
- Other Issues that Impact the Industry
- Supporters under the New Act
- Restrictive practices
- Role of enduring guardians and enduring attorneys
- Succession issues
Presented by Arthur Koumoukelis, Partner, Thomson Geer; Recommended Health & Aged Care Lawyers, New South Wales, Doyle’s Guide 2024; Best Lawyers in Australia, Health and Aged Care Law and Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law; Lawyer of the Year for Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law, Sydney 2025
Presenters
Arthur Koumoukelis, Partner, Thomson Geer
Arthur Koumoukelis specialises in the aged care and retirement village industry and joined Thomson Geer as a partner in April 2018. He has advised the sector since 1995 and has been consistently awarded Best Lawyer since 2011. He advises on all aspects of operations and development, appeared in all major courts and advised on the most landmark developments including Mark Moran Vaucluse, Watermark at Harbord and developed financial products for La Trobe. He has advised in Malaysia and Singapore in relation to developing facilities in those jurisdictions.
