Aged Care Policies and Frameworks

Running head: AGED CARE
AGED CARE POLICIES AND FRAMEWORKS
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Introduction
Advancement in the healthcare delivery system, evidence based interventions and
path breaking medical researches has positively influence the care process around the world
by increasing the life expectancy of the population (Stoddart & Evans, 2017). However, such
increase in life expectancy and increased elderly population receiving care in healthcare
facilities require long term care with implementation of trained and patient friendly
healthcare professionals (Harper, 2014). As per Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
(2019), more than 15% or 3.8 million population were registered more than 65 years and the
Australian government is completely focused in meeting the healthcare needs and priorities
of this community.
The primary aim of this paper is to identify the primary healthcare process for older
people and identify their representation in the policies, laws and social service delivery in the
global and Australian healthcare process. Further, the older healthcare process resource
allocation, service provision and service provision would be provided using a social capital
approach. Finally, using user-pays, model of wellness and case management with active
aging related models would be used to critique the model of healthcare.
Primary healthcare for older people
As per the world health organisation, there are two global policies that have guided
the aging care frameworks of multiple nations including Australia. These policy instruments
are “political declaration and Madrid International plan of action on aging” and the
active aging by the World Health Organisation (Nakanishi & Nakashima, 2013). These
policies are in public domain so that national and state healthcare organisations with the help
of their governmental support could lead to develop and implement strategies so that aged
healthcare becomes enable to support critical healthcare needs. Further, it also ensures that

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application of such policy frameworks could enhance the quality of life of the older
individual by approaching their mental, physical and social aspect of care (Prince et al.,
2013). While assessing the representation of older adults while developing healthcare policies
and frameworks, it should be mentioned that the strategic priority areas developed by WHO
for aged care includes life- course healthy aging, supportive environment, application of long
term care intervention and upgrading healthcare system (Williamson et al., 2016). This would
help the healthcare policymakers of different nations to include five main areas in their
healthcare policies especially for older adults. These would be prevention of fall, enhancing
their physical activities, preventing infectious diseases by increased vaccination, developing
care homes, community care centres, to support the self- management and finally the
increasing the capacities of the geriatric care centres to support maximum number of patients
with their skills and interventions. However, there are several aspects that was missed while
developing aged care polices and frameworks due to which the complete implementation of
these strategies caused extensive pressure (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2019).
In Australian context, as per the Department of Health (2019) the current standards
for aged health and social care includes accreditation standards, policies for aging in
aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders, transition care standards and home care centres that
targets holistic health and social care aspects of the wide aged care population. However,
despite the wide spread laws and regulations about aged care process in Australian aged care
facility, several gaps affected their representation in the conventional healthcare in Australia.
Lack of hospital beds, and lack of infrastructure for long term care has affected the
application of such legislations and policies in the aged car process Australia.
Evaluation of rationales
While allocating resources (both financial and human resources) application of social
care approach should be mentioned as their connection through reciprocity, care trust and