Resources

This resource from Relationships Australia SA provides questions and activities for people to use to encourage someone in aged care to reminisce about their past experiences. 

A tool from the Department of Health and Aged Care to help Commonwealth Home Support Programme workers to understand the principles of wellness and reablement and how they can be applied practically in service delivery.

The More Good Days Wellness Wheel from the Department of Health and Aged Care is a tool for home care support workers to help them understand what is important to their client, what gives their life meaning, where they currently are, and where they want to be.

The Geriatric Depression Scale is a 15-item self-report measure of depression in older adults. Available and validated in multiple languages. Available as an app.

The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory is a simple tool with sound psychometric properties which allows screening for dimensional anxiety in older adults who may have anxiety, yet have not been properly diagnosed.

Shorter version of the 42-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scales that was designed to measure three related negative emotional states of depression, anxiety and tension/stress.

Through questions, this template from the Department of Health and Aged Care 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 they were, and what could be done differently to support clients. 

This document from the Department of Health and Aged Care outlines the concept of wellness and reablement for Commonwealth Home Support Programme support workers. 

This resource from the Department of Health and Aged Care outlines a whole-of-person approach across three key areas of wellness: mind, body, and social connectedness. 

This tool from the Department of Health and Aged Care shows you the many different ways reablement practices and techniques can be introduced in everyday service delivery situations.