Aged Care: Structure, Approaches, Legal and Ethical Obligations

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1. Structure and profile in the aged care sector:
Residential Aged care:
Residential Aged Care setup is funded by the Commonwealth and it includes High
Level Care setup or Nursing home care facility; Low level care setup or hostel care facility
and care facilities which provides both high level and low level care (Gnanamanickam et al.
2018).
Home and Community Support Sector:
These are funded and administrated jointly by State or Territorial Government and the
Commonwealth and includes Community Aged Care Packages (CACP); Home and
Community Care Program (HACC) and Respite Programs which supports elderly and frail
patients (Zografos et al. 2016).
Current best practice service delivery models:
The current service delivery models include:
i. Walk in/Walk out (RARMS)
ii. Viable Models/Sustainable Models
iii. University Clinics
iv. Shared Care Model
v. Co-Ordinated Care Trials
vi. Primary Health Care teams
vii. Multi Purpose Service Programs

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viii. Aboriginal Controlled Community Health Services
ix. Hub and spoke
x. Visiting periodic services
xi. Fly in/Fly out
xii. Virtual amalgamation
xiii. Virtual Clinics
xiv. Telehealth and Telemedicine
(Wakerman et al. 2017)
Relevant Agencies and referral networks for support services:
Agencies and referral networks that are relevant to aged care include:
i. My Aged Care
ii. Help to Stay at home
iii. Caring for someone
iv. Dementia care
v. National Aged Care Advocacy group
vi. Community Visitors
vii. Incontinence care
viii. Aged care complaints commissioner
(agedcare.health.gov.au 2018)