by Carrie | CDC, person centred care
This is a question we are asked often. Actually, the question is usually posed as ‘remote services can’t provide level 3 or 4 Home Care Packages, can they?’ as if there is no way that remote services could even think about daring to offer level 3 or 4 package...
by Carrie | CDC, Clients, person centred care
According to a recent report by ‘TNS Social Research’, many organisations, particularly those operating in rural and remote locations, as well as those supporting CALD consumers, struggle to have ‘The Conversation’. You know, the one where you have to talk about the...
by Carrie | CDC, Clients, person centred care
In many rural and remote Aboriginal communities, aged care services need to support consumers who are transient. Transient consumers are those who may be absent from their home from three to four days at a time or longer, in some instances four to six weeks and...
by Carrie | CDC, Clients, person centred care
Stakeholder Mapping is one way of supporting individuals receiving care services under a Consumer Directed Care (CDC) model. It’s a way of minimising the duplication of services, maximising consumer package funds and ensuring that all relevant people are kept in the...
by Carrie | Care and Safety, person centred care
I was interested to hear a talk presented by the Quality Agency recently on their discovery that the compliance rate of residential care services was above 95% in meeting the aged care standards. But what was more interesting were their observations about Quality of...
by Carrie | Clients, person centred care
How many times have you heard phrases like these? “It’s your responsibility”. “The person is an aged care client so you should be doing it”. ‘It’ being a multitude of supports that supposedly you, as the aged care coordinator, should be arranging for the individual...
