Step 1 Establish the basic subsidy amount that would be payable for that day if the care recipient was receiving residential care (not being respite care) at the same location in a residential care service and where the care recipient was classified at classification level RCS 1.

Step 2 Add the amount equivalent to the amount of the oxygen supplement that would be payable under subsection 44-13(1) of the Act if the care recipient was receiving residential care.

Step 3 Add the amount equivalent to the amount of the enteral feeding supplement that would be payable under subsection 44-14(1) of the Act if the care recipient was receiving residential care.

The result is the amount of flexible care subsidy payable in respect of the care recipient for flexible care provided to the care recipient; in the form of extended aged care at home – dementia, on that day.

Dated this …8th…… day of…December……….2005

Signed by

Julie Bishop

JULIE BISHOP

Minister for Ageing