Answer To: HSC1400 Assessment Task 4 Contribution: 30% of the total mark Word count: 1800 words Due date:...
Arunavo answered on Oct 29 2021
Running Head: RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE 1
RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE 2
RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE SERVICE IN AUSTRALIA
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Health and Social Characteristics of the Aged Care Facility 3
Health of Aged People 3
Relevant Health Service Providers 3
How the Users Get the Service 4
Funding of the Aged Care 4
Aged Care Policies and Programs 4
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Policies 6
Conclusion 7
References 8
Introduction
In today’s busy world many people are compelled or willingly opting to work for long hours or they are moving out of their native pace to work somewhere else for better career growth. Hence their old aged parents are left alone in the house when they need the most care at that moment. These parents need mental, physical and medical care as at this age they are not being able to things of their own. In this article the detailed discussion will be made with respect to the resident aged care service in Australia. Further the discussion will be made regarding the health and social characteristics, service providers, policies and the manner in which the policies are implemented with respect to the aged care facilities. Further there will be discussion with respect to the strengths and weaknesses of the aged care facilities will be discussed.
Health and Social Characteristics of the Aged Care Facility
In the country like Australia there are a significant amount of aged people staying. They are basically retired working professionals living in their own house mostly. Meagher, Szebehely and Mears (2016) have discussed that by 2017 nearly fifteen percent of the population of 3.8 million is Australia are aged people. However the trajectory had shown that in coming decades there will be slow and steady growth in the aged population. Generally the most common traits that can be found among the aged people are they are productive and having active lifestyle, they have a positive mindset, they are resilient and are adaptable, they maintain a healthy weight and overall nutritious diet, they can able to balance their stress levels, they have a good self esteem and they share a close bonds and social relationship in their circle.
Health of Aged People
However the aged groups of people are also susceptible to various types of diseases as they grow older. Reeve, Low and Hilmer (2019) have discussed that the aged people are mainly suffering from hearing loss, cataracts and many kind of refractive errors along with back and neck pain and osteoarthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, depression and dementia. Furthermore with the growing age the number of disease also increases such as chronic diseases such as neurological, cardio and many more.
Relevant Health Service Providers
Generally most of the aged Australians prefer to stay in their own homes. Tollit et al. (2019) have discussed that nearly eighty three percent of them prefer to stay in their own house. The number of services that are provided in the in-house aged care services are personal care, domestic assistance, nutrition and meal preparation, continence management, mobility and dexterity assistance, nursing, allied and other health and clinical services, transport and assistance getting around in their own community, equipments and daily aids, social support and all kinds of medical assistance.
How the Users Get the Service
It has been seen that the specific kinds of services are being provided to the aged care comes in package. The package are generally consists of different kinds of services and the rates based on that. Harrison et al. (2020) have further discussed that the packages provide a long term help to allow the aged people to stay independently for a longer period of time. Depending of the level of the support which is required the support system is provided to the aged people. The aged people can tailor their packages based on their needs. The package includes personal care, domestic...