Resources

Illustrated cue cards to assist carers/care staff to understand the care needs of a person and create opportunities to build trust and security while reducing anxiety.

This tool provides a list of essential elements needed to adopt wellness and reablement by the organisation.

Questions and activities for people to use to encourage someone in aged care to reminisce about their past experiences. 

A tool to help Commonwealth Home Support Programme workers to understand the principles of wellness and reablement and how they can be applied practically in service delivery.

The More Good Days Wellness Wheel is a tool for home care support workers to help them understand what is important to their client, what gives their life meaning, where they currently are, and where they want to be.

The Geriatric Depression Scale is a 15-item self-report measure of depression in older adults. Available and validated in multiple languages. Available as an app.

The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory is a simple tool with sound psychometric properties which allows screening for dimensional anxiety in older adults who may have anxiety, yet have not been properly diagnosed.

Shorter version of the 42-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scales that was designed to measure three related negative emotional states of depression, anxiety and tension/stress.

Through questions, this template aims to develop a greater understanding of the effectiveness of service delivery techniques in shifting towards wellness and reablement by considering what worked well, if there were barriers, what they were, and what could be done differently to support clients. 

This document outlines the concept of wellness and reablement for Commonwealth Home Support Programme support workers. It identifies eight underlying elements - or key principles - of wellness and reablement, including how these can be applied to an overall service delivery approach with their clients.