Wellness Approach to Community Home Care (A Community West & WA HACC Initiative)

This booklet was developed: – To assist HACC funded providers to understand the principles underpinning the Wellness Approach to Home & Community Care in Western Australia; and – To inform providers of key factors that will assist them in Read more

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Social and Emotional Wellbeing

This is a series of 10 factsheets that have been developed to raise awareness about different mental health issues among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The information in the factsheets was adapted from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Read more

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Living well at home: CHSP Good Practice Guide

Service providers are expected to adopt a wellness approach in their service delivery practices

This guide helps service providers understand the concepts and principles of wellness, reablement and restorative care approaches in services delivered under the Commonwealth Home Support Read more

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Intellectual wellness – keeping your brain active matters

Every brain changes with age, and mental function changes along with it. Mental decline is common, and it’s one of the most feared consequences of aging. But cognitive impairment is not inevitable. Here are 12 ways you can help maintain brain function.

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Guidance and resources for providers to support the Aged Care Quality Standards

The guidance material is intended to assist aged care services to implement and maintain compliance with the Quality Standards. It describes the intent of the Standards and the Commission’s expectations of performance and provides supporting information and examples of Read more

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ACSA Wellness & Reablement Self-Assessment Roadmap

The Wellness and Reablement Roadmap has been developed by ACSA to help CHSP providers to self-assess progress in integrating wellness and reablement principles into core service delivery.

It provides a framework for discussions at all levels within an organisation Read more

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Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission: Quality Standards Webpage

This Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (Commission) Webpage provides links to resources for aged care service providers to assist aged care services to implement and maintain compliance with the Quality Standards. Resources include: Guidance and Resources for Providers Read more

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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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