Resources

This guide explains how clinical aged care needs assessors and assessment delegates should enter and manage Short-Term Restorative Care (STRC) details in the My Aged Care assessor portal.

Read the findings of the 2021 and 2022 Wellness and Reablement Reports, which look at CHSP providers’ progress towards embedding wellness and reablement approaches. This helps us to gain a more in-depth understanding of how wellness and reablement is delivered in practice.

Read the findings of the 2023 Wellness and Reablement Report, which looks at CHSP providers’ progress towards embedding wellness and reablement approaches. This helps us to gain a more in-depth understanding of how wellness and reablement is delivered in practice.

This schedule applies to people who first entered care on or after 1 July 2014. It also applies to those who entered care before this date and have chosen to be covered by the 1 July 2014 arrangements.

The final framework sets out the criteria for specialised care delivery. Aged care providers who deliver specific services that meet diverse needs may apply for specialisation verification.

A Budget 2022–23 fact sheet.

This final report from Australian Healthcare Associates (AHA) outlines the results of a review into selecting special needs specialisations within the My Aged Care system's Find a Provider tool. It also discusses developing a framework to verify specialisations and research on ways to do this.

Designed as a practical tool to assist management teams to plan and undertake change activities within your organisation. It provides a process to systematically identify and capture change activities through a change management template and provides examples to help get started.

The self-assessment provides an overview of the elements you need to adopt wellness and reablement in your organisation. It includes scoring to measure the levels of organisational readiness, helps to identify areas of focus or improvement, and enables a baseline to be developed for future progress.

While organisations have their own style and way of doing things, all organisations should adopt wellness and reablement approaches as they support person-centred and high-quality care. This checklist helps to review how your organisation has embedded a culture supporting wellness and reablement.

Standard operating procedures (SOP) provide an ability to define the steps and processes required to undertake a given activity. This can be critical in setting team expectations and to identify the requirements – such as training or coaching – needed to complete the SOP.

This template steps out guidance on how to incrementally review, plan and deploy improvements within your organisation. Continuous improvement is cyclical and changes should be continuously reviewed and evaluated to ensure they are fit-for-purpose and will meet your organisational needs.

How to have a conversation on wellness and reablement with the client (without using the word reablement) by instead defining and illustrating your delivery approach and how doing with, rather than for, can benefit the client. Includes benefits to clients, their carers or families.

In developing person-centred goals for clients, there is no one-size-fits all but there are certain guiding principles that can help you develop individual goals for your clients. The SMARTA approach is demonstrated with examples for each element, including a goal-setting checklist.

Sets out the principles of effective care planning and includes a checklist to step out the client requirements. For example, their circumstances, goal, actions (and who is responsible: the client, family or carer, or the service provider), the frequency of services and review dates.

Guidance to introduce reablement practices into everyday service delivery to help empower clients do what they can for themselves. This may involve different ways of doing a task or offering choices, which can increase confidence and motivation, in turn linking to increased social connectedness.

Through questions, this template aims to develop a greater understanding of the effectiveness of service delivery techniques in shifting towards wellness and reablement by considering what worked well, if there were barriers, what were they and what could be done differently to support clients.

Provides service managers with support to implement change at an organisational level to embed, review and establish continuous improvement mechanisms on wellness and reablement. The toolkit is designed as a Practical Guide to Embed Wellness and Reablement which focuses on service delivery.

This practical guide is for all in-home aged care organisations. It helps those who manage the intake process, develop care plans with older people and their family/carer, and deliver support focussing on client strengths to continue living at home as independently as they can.

A one-page document explaining the concept of wellness and reablement for support workers. It identifies eight underlying elements – or key principles – of wellness and reablement, including how these can be applied to an overall service delivery approach with their clients.

Outlines a whole-of-person approach across three key areas of wellness: mind, body, and social connectedness. Includes sample questions to gain an understanding of what is important to the client, so that with the information in the assessment, an individualised care plan can be developed.

Read and order hard copies of this booklet about accessing short-term restorative care.

This diagram shows the key steps that providers should follow when providing short-term restorative care. It provides links, where available, to further guidance information.