10 May 2017 Family Violence Workers – have your say…. Posted by Sharyn Rognrust, Category: Aged Care, Allied Health, Domestic Violence, Elder Abuse Prevention, Family Violence, Frontline staff, Policy & Practice, Prevention of violence against women, Violence Against Women, Victoria’s first family violence workforce census is live until 19 May 2017. Anyone whose work int ... Read more
19 Apr 2017 NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework Posted by Sharyn Rognrust, Category: Active Service Model (ASM), Advocacy, Aged Care, Consumer Engagement, Consumers, Data & Evaluation, NDIS, Quality Improvement, This framework provides a nationally consistent approach to help empower and support NDIS participan ... Read more
01 Mar 2017 Changes bring more choice in aged care at home Posted by Sharyn Rognrust, Category: Aged Care, New measures come into force next week, giving older people greater choice in their in-home aged car ... Read more
09 Nov 2016 North and West Metropolitan Divisions HACC / CHSP Alliance Update – Nov 2016 Posted by Sharyn Rognrust, Category: Active Service Model (ASM), Aged Care, Commonwealth Home Support Program, Home & Community Care (HACC), We are in a dynamic environment with the transition from HACC to the Commonwealth Home Support Progr ... Read more
04 Oct 2016 Northern Health Multi Access & Support Posted by Sharyn Rognrust, Category: Aged Care, Commonwealth Home Support Program, Disability, Healthy Ageing, Commonwealth Home Support Program to help older people from diverse backgrounds to remain indepe ... Read more
14 Mar 2016 Save the date for the HACC Quality Improvement Strategy Sessions Posted by Sharyn Rognrust, Category: Aged Care, Health Reform, Home & Community Care (HACC), 11 or 18 April..... DHHS has contracted Australian Healthcare Associates (AHA) to develop and del ... Read more
18 Dec 2015 National Carer Gateway launched Posted by Sharyn Rognrust, Category: Aged Care, Healthy Ageing, A new Carer Gateway service aims to make it easier for the estimated 2.7 million family and friend c ... Read more
06 Nov 2015 Greater say for Victorians: Improving end of life care Posted by Sharyn Rognrust, Category: Aged Care, End of life care, Policy & Practice, The Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) launched a website and discussion paper ... Read more
06 Nov 2015 World Report on Ageing and Health 2015 Posted by Sharyn Rognrust, Category: Aged Care, Gender Equity, Healthy Ageing, Infrastructure, Planning & Evaluation, This report was released on 1 October, the International Day of Older Persons, by the World Health O ... Read more
14 Oct 2015 ASM Online Training Package Posted by Sharyn Rognrust, Category: Active Service Model (ASM), Aged Care, eHealth & Service Coordination, Healthy Ageing, Resources, Training, The Active Service in the South online training can be used for inducting staff who are new to Home ... Read more