Resources

This resource from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare is an abridged version of Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best practice guidelines for Australian residential aged care facilities (2009).

An evaluation of the 'Better ageing: Promoting independent living' budget measure initiated by the Australian Government Department of Health. The aim of the measure was to support Regional Assessment Services and Commonwealth Home Support Programme providers to deliver services that promote greater client independence.

This podcast was developed to support the Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) reablement training. Released in February 2021. (9 min)

This tool from The Department of Health and Aged Care is designed to help staff to have conversations with clients and their families/carers about wellness and reablement. It provides conversational tips for communicating the approach and its benefits.

This template from the Department of Health and Aged Care steps out guidance on how to incrementally review, plan and deploy improvements within your Commonwealth Home Support Programme organisation.

A video case study from Opal HealthCare about restorative care in a residential aged care setting. It tells the story of George who had a stroke almost four years ago, which left him in a wheelchair. (2 min)

This online forum is focused on supporting you and your colleagues to share ideas, best practice and practical examples to embed wellness and reablement into your everyday service delivery practices.

This tool from the Department of Health and Aged Care provides a process to systematically identify and capture change activities through a change management template and provides examples to help get started.

This checklist from the Department of Health and Aged Care serves as a guide for service providers to carry out an effective patient centred and goal oriented care plan.

A resource designed to support services to implement effective restorative care and reablement for people living at home with dementia.