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Australian Parliament Report on Aged Care

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Added on  2020-03-16

Australian Parliament Report on Aged Care

   Added on 2020-03-16

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Running head: AGED CARE 1Student name:Lecturer’ name:Student affiliation:Date:
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Running head: AGED CARE 2Introduction The government has emphasized on the need of developing aged care policies for thepurpose of assisting healthy ageing. The Victorian legislation has reviewed the palliative careservices and facilitate the access to expert care for all the people facing the end of life. It is clearthe people in their final stage of life ought to expect care and comfort. This indeed ensures thatthere is quality life in the remaining days. It is evident that in the Australian government there islittle written policy about the care of the dying (Zeng, Crimmins, Carriere, Robine, 2016).An analysis was taken on the aged care and palliative policy documents, this includedchecking on channel to establish the different literature used to keep the record. The documentsreviewed included the mainstream media, academic literature, press releases and the Australiangovernment policy documents.The attitude of people have changed recently on the issues in palliative care, death anddying in the aged care. Naturally it is shaped by factors in the cultural beliefs, experiences suchas war and accident loss, and the religious or spiritual beliefs (Finch, 2014).Policies promoting autonomyThere is need to recognized and embrace autonomy in different ways in aged care andpalliative. This is individual responsibility and decision making that are key in this kind of care.The government has come up with ways to facilitate this policies. One of the ways is theincorporation of the consumer voice, in the advanced care plan. This means that people canexpress the wish to end life, can have different choices and in the jurisdiction of and scope in theapproach. The government has the standard clinical practices and observes the wishes of thefamily. This gives the individual the right to have the personal aspect of deciosion making. He
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