Managers, here’s how to support your staff during COVID-19

Workplace changes, coupled with the ongoing health and economic threat of COVID-19, can have a significant impact on employee wellbeing. Here’s how to support your staff, particularly those struggling with stress and other emotions.

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KeepAble

Compiled by a team of dedicated professionals, KeepAble is an online collaborative hub for practical content that supports home and community care providers (including CHSP) to deliver wellness and reablement approaches.

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Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) Manual

This 2022-2023 manual provides an overview of the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP), including the service types it funds and requirements for delivering those services. It is for CHSP-funded service providers to use, and forms part of their CHSP Read more

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Goal Setting

Health Direct provides an overview why do people set goals and how they work. It gives examples of the type of goals there are, the value of having them and benefits for mental health; plus how to set them, Read more

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Impact of Mandatory First Aid for Volunteer on the South Australian Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) Sector

This report documents the findings from a sector survey along with circumstantial feedback provided to Collaborative Project Officers (CPO’s) and Volunteering SA&NT, including recommendations for consideration by the Department of Health Australian Government Department of Health (DoH) in regards Read more

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Wellness in Older Adults: A Concept Analysis

The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of wellness as it relates to older adults and geriatric nursing using Rodger’s evolutionary perspective (1989). The evolutionary method was chosen as its analytic philosophical base is grounded in Read more

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Working towards evidence-based reablement approaches across aged care services

AAG held a workshop on the topic of reablement in November 2018 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.  The aim was to stimulate thinking about what reablement and wellness mean in aged care, and whether there are Read more

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Wellness and reablement in the Victorian home care sector: Statewide review of progress

Wellness and reablement is an approach that builds on people’s strengths and goals to promote independence and autonomy in home care. Evidence shows that this approach is effective in improving function, independence and quality of life for older people Read more

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Physical activity for seniors

The Victorian Government provides information around the benefits of physical activity for seniors.

On this page you will find content on:

  1. The physical decline of older age
  2. Common myths
  3. Other barriers to exercise
  4. Benefits to the older body
  5. Getting active
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Reablement: the best aged care policy no one ever heard of

Professor Michael Fine provides an overview of reablement in Australia.

Sometimes the best ideas are so obvious no one seems to pay attention to them. Reablement is such a clever idea that it seems almost unnecessary to have a Read more

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