Australian Healthcare System: Literature Review on Elderly Care

This literature review focuses on elderly healthcare in Australia, a country with a high life expectancy. The review explores the increasing elderly population's impact on healthcare services, highlighting the preference for home care over aged care facilities. It discusses the importance of home care plans and integrated healthcare programs to improve the health and well-being of the elderly. The review analyzes various home care programs, their funding, and application methods, recommending integrated healthcare programs. The aim is to reduce hospital visits and improve the quality of life for elderly patients by providing comprehensive medical services in their homes. References include studies on organizing integrated healthcare services and value-based primary healthcare in Australia. The review emphasizes the need for healthcare systems to adapt and meet the growing needs of the elderly population, including the challenges faced by hospitals and the importance of community care.

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The literature review is based on elderly people who live in Australia. This country has
the highest life expectancy in the world. Due to the rapid gradual increase in the elderly
population, health care services are required to make changes that will improve the health and
wellbeing of the elderly. The findings of this literature review showed that most elderly patients
prefer to stay at home than in a home for the aged, which is very risky since the individual may
have an underlying problem which is not detected early. It therefore necessary to introduce home
care plans into the society (Oliver-Baxter, Brown and Dawda, 2017, p 98.
The literature review explains some of the services offered in elderly healthcare. It also
gives a guide to some of the elderly home care programs and a comprehensive aging assessment
program. The elderly home care programs are defined, benefits analyzed, and an application is
given. In addition, the literature review has compared the various home care programs and
analyzed them according to their differences in funding and methods of application. The
literature review recommends using the integrated healthcare program for home care
organizations (Araujo de Carvalho et al. 2017, p 756-763).
Using home care plans will help to improve the health of the elderly and will also reduce
the frequent visits to medical facilities which are costly. Home care plans will provide the patient
will all the medical services while allowing the patient to enjoy the comfort of their home

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References
Araujo de Carvalho, I., Epping-Jordan, J., Pot, A., Kelley, E., Toro, N., Thiyagarajan, J. and
Beard, J. (2017). Organizing integrated health-care services to meet older people’s
needs. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 95(11), pp.756-763.
Oliver-Baxter, J., Brown, L., and Dawda, P. (2017). Should the healthcare compass in Australia
point towards value-based primary healthcare? Australian Health Review, 41(1), p.98.