Aged Care Quality Standards: a message for boards, CEOs and senior staff

This 3.5 minute video is an introduction to spiritual care for senior leaders. Highlighting key responsibilities and concepts, it is a great way to start the conversation with those responsible for governance and strategy.

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Aged Care Quality Standards: a message for personal carers

This 1.5 minute video is a special message for personal carers, who are the heart of the aged care system in Australia. It introduces them to the idea that their role is contributing to each person’s spiritual wellbeing.

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Aged Care Quality Standards: assessment and planning

This 3.20 minute video is for those who are responsible for assessment and planning in aged care in Australia. It introduces the links between assessment and planning the Quality Standards and the National Guidelines for Spiritual Care in Aged Care.

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Aged Care Quality Standards: examples of spiritual care in action

This five minute video introduces care coordinators and team leaders to ways in which spiritual care can be integrated in to usual care planning. It shows that understanding a person’s spirituality may or may not include a faith connection, Read more

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The Subjective Wellbeing Evaluation Toolkit: A resource to support the use of Subjective Wellbeing to measure the impact of community programs and public policy initiatives

The aim of this toolkit is to provide introductory information about the practical use of how to measure Subjective Wellbeing using only 8 questions and how to interpret the results in the evaluation of community based projects, strategies and Read more

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Outcomes of the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) Wellness and Reablement Report 2018

With 1025 responses, the survey showed that most organisations understand the benefits of wellness and reablement, and have embedded these approaches in service delivery.

Responses cover various issues around wellness and reablement, including whether organisations:

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Wellness and Reablement in the home Care Sector – Summary of Consultations across the Home Care Sector (NOUS Report)

Using wellness and reablement (W&R) approaches to deliver support to older people is a key objective of the Commonwealth Government’s home-based care programs. To help encourage these approaches, in January 2017 the Department of Health engaged the Nous Group Read more

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