Victorian Aged Care and Palliative Policies: An Analytical Report

This report analyzes aged care and palliative care policies, focusing on the Australian government's efforts to promote healthy aging and end-of-life care. It examines the Victorian legislation's review of palliative care services and the importance of providing comfort and quality of life for individuals in their final stages. The report explores the evolution of attitudes towards palliative care, influenced by cultural beliefs, experiences, and religious factors. It highlights policies promoting autonomy, such as incorporating the consumer voice in advanced care plans and establishing age-friendly communities. The report also emphasizes the significance of health education, social support, and interpersonal reorientation in enhancing the well-being of the aged population. The conclusion underscores the value of health promotion and palliative care in ensuring a dignified end of life, particularly for those with chronic illnesses, supported by relevant references.

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Introduction
The government has emphasized on the need of developing aged care policies for the
purpose of assisting healthy ageing. The Victorian legislation has reviewed the palliative care
services and facilitate the access to expert care for all the people facing the end of life. It is clear
the people in their final stage of life ought to expect care and comfort. This indeed ensures that
there is quality life in the remaining days. It is evident that in the Australian government there is
little written policy about the care of the dying (Zeng, Crimmins, Carriere, Robine, 2016).
An analysis was taken on the aged care and palliative policy documents, this included
checking on channel to establish the different literature used to keep the record. The documents
reviewed included the mainstream media, academic literature, press releases and the Australian
government policy documents.
The attitude of people have changed recently on the issues in palliative care, death and
dying in the aged care. Naturally it is shaped by factors in the cultural beliefs, experiences such
as war and accident loss, and the religious or spiritual beliefs (Finch, 2014).
Policies promoting autonomy
There is need to recognized and embrace autonomy in different ways in aged care and
palliative. This is individual responsibility and decision making that are key in this kind of care.
The government has come up with ways to facilitate this policies. One of the ways is the
incorporation of the consumer voice, in the advanced care plan. This means that people can
express the wish to end life, can have different choices and in the jurisdiction of and scope in the
approach. The government has the standard clinical practices and observes the wishes of the
family. This gives the individual the right to have the personal aspect of deciosion making. He

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reason to end life should be based on the dying person’s case. The government has a strategy to
roll out all its citizens to the opportunity to register to the end life plan.
The government has effectively set out the age-friendly community. The society should
have in mind measures of maintaining the aged population to have a successful ageing tis
community the aged are considered in the decision makings of the government plans. The
community adopts to the death and dying experiences without any major disruptions to their
activities (Wykle, Whitehouse, Morris, 2015).
Provision of health education inclusive of the death education is also very critical in the
aged community. In this case it is an expressed concern by the physicians and included in the
government policies. The Australian parliament report on future ageing showed that awareness
was key on the palliative care.
Social support is also a key thing that the government has facilitated. The old age people
for a long time has lacked and an alternative solution has to be developed in this case.
Socialization aspect is very healthy in the old age transition period, so for the old people this kill
their loneliness which they are very vulnerable with. Social support add the continuity in the
relationship and builds up a sense of bond with the aged (Haber, 2013). The government has
enhanced the interpersonal reorientation, which encourages the identity of the aged people,
concerns and needs that attributed.
Conclusions
Health promotion and the palliative care is an appropriate development in the end of life
care, mostly in the old age. This enhances the idea of a dignified death in the degenerative
diseases mainly cancer. Both address the need to look into the relationships of people who die

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after long life suffering with chronic illnesses. The government have come up with the policies
and measure to enhance a good end of life.

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