Resources

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.

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.

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.

If you are out in public, you may need to let other people (for example the bus driver, cafe staff or receptionist) know that you, or the person you support, has dementia. This card from Forward with Dementia discretely alerts people that you may require their help and support.

This booklet from the Queensland University of Technology is designed for you to obtain as much information as possible relating to your family member’s care needs, so that the care provided by you at home can be continued as closely as possible by others.

This tool from the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration helps a carer keep an up-to-date source of information that can help hospital staff tailor care for your loved one. It is designed on the principles of person-centred care, which values each person as an individual.