Community Care Reports
Viability Supplement We Make Do
Community care is, and will continue to be, the foundation for the support of our expanding ageing population. Community care services are extremely important in rural and remote areas in maintaining older people in their local communities. The costs of providing services in rural and remote areas are higher than in metropolitan areas due to a number of operating variables including travel, food and staffing costs. These costs were largely ignored in community care until 2006 when the Howard Government introduced the Community Care Viability Supplement (CCVS) at Aged and Community Services Australia’s (ACSA’s) urging. The CCVS was the companion supplement to the Residential Care Viability Supplement granted some years previous. Home and Community Care (HACC) programs are not yet covered by a viability supplement.
Developing a Community Care Research Agenda
ACSA, the AAG and the Ageing Well Network invite you to review the research areas identified and to let us know if there are any other areas you think should be included on this list. Once we have your feedback a final list will be forwarded to a Reference Group – working on behalf of the three organisations – and they will commence the task of developing research questions and priorities. Consultation on the questions and priorities will occur. Based on the outcomes of the consultation a community care research agenda will be prepared and be supported by an advocacy strategy to attract funding and resources to action the agenda.
Case Management Discussion Paper
The community care system is in a period of review and reform. The Australian Government has released a paper The Way Forward which sets broad directions for the reform process and this provides an opportunity for case management and its role to be actively and appropriately considered. Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA) and the Case Management Society of Australia (CMSA) have recognised the need for a policy direction for case management in relation to the community care service system. This paper: • describes case management and its role in community care; • articulates the distinctive features of case management; and • demonstrates the benefits and outcomes case management can deliver for individual clients, their natural networks and the community care system as a whole.
Vision for Community Care
In 2002 a coalition of professional bodies, consumer groups and disability, aged and community care industry groupls came together to build on the work of the ACSA Discussion paper and develop a Vision for Community Care. The Vision was released for discussion in August 2002. At much the same time The Myer Foundation undertook a project looking at the future of aged care and released a report 2020: A Vision for Aged Care in Australia in November 2002.
Allen consulting future of community care report
This report was commissioned by the Community Care Coalition, a coalition representing the interests of service providers, clients (younger and older Australians with disabilities), as well as unpaid carers who provide much of the care for those needing it. The report examines the performance of the community care system in Australia, and identifies options for the future development and expansion of community care. It presents the findings of research undertaken with clients of community care and their carers, as well as from examining relevant literature.
