The Community Visitors Scheme Handbook
The Community Visitors Scheme (CVS) is a federally-funded program, established to promote links between people living in an aged care home and the wider community.
Table of contents
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Media releases
- Delivering More Aged Care Places For Eastern Melbourne
- $25 Million for accommodation for aged and disadvantaged
- Christmas message – remember to check in on your elderly relatives and neighbours
- 6,500 more aged care places for older Australians
- Boost for Home and Community Care in Western Australia
Publications
- Terms and Conditions for Aged Care Funding
- How a palliative approach can help older people being cared for at home: A booklet for older people and their families
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Regional Survey on Ageing 2011: Australia
- Report on the Operation of the Aged Care Act 1997
- Community Care Census 2008
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