General Practice and Residential Aged Care

Running head: AGED CARE PRACTICES IN AUSTRALIA
Aged Care Practices in Australia
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AGED CARE PRACTICES1
Discuss at least one way services are designed to encourage older people to be
independent and actively participate in society. Your discussion should include at
least one positive or negative factor.
Aged care services is a summative approach towards improving and promoting quality
health care among older adults, all across the globe , with the services being prominent in the
Australian population, as well. These practices involve the imparting of health care services and
individualized assistance to elderly individuals through residential or aged-care home-based
facilities, which has both positive and negative outcomes as well (Cook et al., 2017). Out of the
positive effects, one of the most prominent is its impact on developing, improving and
maintaining social and communication skills, and shaping the lifestyle habits as well.
Illustratively, if the aged-care service is being delivered at the residential level, then there is a
specific limit to social interaction, but a caregiver provides benefits of better social interaction
and communication. This will ultimately help in the maintenance of healthy mental wellbeing as
well. Moreover, the help of a professional caregiver will also enable the senior citizen to enhance
their lifestyle without any kind of hassle at all (Australian Government Department of Health,
2019). They are not required to do any kind of household chores as the person will be able to
help them with all their needs and requirements.
Explain a model of health service delivery in aged care.
For better understanding the framework of quality aged care services, a specific model
associated with this service, is essential. Apart from the primary and prevalent models, an
innovative approach based model is The Teaching and Research Aged Care Services program. In
Australia it is identified as the first teaching nursing home model established and Australian
Government funded the organization from 2012 until 2015 (Australian Government Department

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of Health, 2020). The program component comprises of services for the aged person and it
consists of teaching, clinical care, research, and service delivery. This model operates through
providing a learning interface to support increased placements of health workers and to promote
professional development activities in various disciplines, thereby increasing the vocational
competence of the aged care services, and resultant enhanced exposure of a greater fragment of
the geriatric population. Following this, another culture change model relevant to the practice is
the US Green House model, which is a small-scale living in nature. Chan and Chan (2018)
opined that the component of this program aims to generate an atmosphere that is an actual
home, which is friendly, and provides equal respects to each of the individual residents thereby
enabling them to exert their individual notions related to autonomy and to apply those notions on
the belongings that are significant to them. This indicates that the citizens themselves are
actively aware, and are thorough, regarding their comforts and preferences that help in fulfilling
their respective choices, which, in a way, further facilitates, the residential based aged care
practices.
Critique the model of health service delivery in aged care that you explained in
question.
When talked about the health service delivery model, there are both traditional as well as
modern approaches that fit into aged care services. On a generalized note, the existing service
models, though considerably approachable in terms of meeting the demands of good quality
healthcare, but it has certain loopholes as well. Therefore, in general, the new policy model
should address the following:
 It should be far more holistic, with more emphasis on the concept of health and health
care being related to the maintenance of physical, psychological, and social wellbeing ,