Management of Aged Care Services

MANAGEMENT OF AGED
CARE SERVICES

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
QUESTION 1..................................................................................................................................1
comprehensive proposal for the establishment of aged care home.............................................1
QUESTION 2..................................................................................................................................5
Aged care situation in Sri Lanka with Prevailing legislation and government services.............5
QUESTION 3..................................................................................................................................8
Ageing with terminal illnesses and the various approaches available to manage it....................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Aged care service can be defined as the taking care or providing support to older people in
their own home or even in an aged care (nursing) home. In this assistance is been given to
elderly aged people for doing their daily activities, providing them with accommodation and
equipment’s like for example walking frames. In aged care the needs and demands of elderly
aged people are been fulfilled. Aged care provides reliable and confidential services which can
assist in improving health and well-being aspects of the elderly aged people. Present report will
lay emphasis on comprehensive proposal for the establishment of such a business with all aspects
of management, recruitment criteria. It will provide essay that focuses on aged care situation that
is being prevailing in Australia. Study emphasises on ageing with terminal illnesses and the
various approaches available to manage it with emphasis on cultural aspects and the use of
modern technology.
QUESTION 1
comprehensive proposal for the establishment of aged care home
Executive summary: The present proposal has been made for providing aged care home
service to elderly people who are 65 and above that age suffering from non-communicable
disease. In order make care home profitable a minimum of 50 residents will be included to whom
service will be provided. It has been analysed that there have been 8 care providers which are
been included in providing services to about 3 members each. The care home is being started to
enhance health and well-being aspects of old people. The main purpose of aged care home is to
enhance their living conditions and also to improve their quality of life. It has also been analysed
that various rules and legislations has been followed. The care home is being engaged in making
sure that health and safety aspects of every elderly aged people is been taken care of.
Care home overview: The care category which will be included in the new aged care
home is residential. There will be various care specialism that will be given. It includes cancer
care, stroke and cerebral palsy and other type of non-communicable disease. The new care home
will provide services to about 50 elderly aged residents (Jokanovic et.al., (2017). In this the
professional staff team members will closely work with residents in order to make sure that their
well-being is enhanced and also they will be engaged in closely monitoring the day to day
activities at home. There will be a dedicated activities coordinator who will be engaged in
ensuring that there is wider scope for events related to residents so that they can participate in
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activities better. The aged care home will be engaged in offering full range of residential care
services inclusive of trial stays, respite breaks and convalescent care. It is also being analysed
that aged care home will also be involved in providing extra facilities like meditation centres, spa
and other related services. This is being given to enhance well-being of the aged people. They
will feel relaxed when been admitted to new aged care home.
Scope of work: Scope of the new aged care home is really high. This is because the care
home is being engaged in providing high quality of services to elderly aged people so that their
wellbeing can be enhanced. Various modern technologies will be used by aged care home to
enhance their quality of life.
Aims and objectives: The aim of new elderly aged care home is to enhance well-being
and quality of life of old people. There main purpose is to provide them with adequate housing
facilities and to analyse their treatment needs. Objective of new aged care home is to also
enhance their profitability and to become best aged care home service in their area. All these are
the aim and objectives of new aged care home. The purpose is to also provide safe
accommodation facilities to aged care people in order to maintain their well-being.
recruitment criteria (client and labour): In this aged care professional care team will
be appointed so that high quality of residential care is being given to 50 residents. In this care
home there will be 16 care takers apart from home manager, housekeeper, Home administrator,
Head chef and support manager (Sluggett et.al., (2017). These staff members will be engaged in
making sure that there is a positive impact on residents as well as their family members. They
will be supporting them to lead a good quality of life. It has also been analysed that the
recruitment criteria which has been set up by the new aged care home is that they will be
allowing the acceptance from referrals and also team members who wants to work in the aged
care home can apply directly.
The employees in care home will be recruited by analysing their qualification. They need
to have experience in this field and must be cooperative with clients. The recruitment criteria in
the aged care service is also been set, in this only those people will be recruited who are 65 or
above this age. In this only those residents will be recruited who do not have home and also to
those who are not been provided with adequate services at home. Elderly aged patients suffering
from non-communicable diseases will be included in this type of services. In registered care
category elderly age people with dementia, physical disability, sensory impairment will be
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