Resources
Browse resources created and collated by ARIIA as a trusted, evidence-based guide to supporting innovation across the aged care sector.
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More good days wellness wheel
Outlines a whole-of-person approach across three key areas of wellness: mind, body, and social connectedness. Includes sample questions to gain an understanding of what is important to the client, so that with the information in the assessment, an individualised care plan can be developed.
Identifying opportunities for reablement
This tool shows you the many different ways reablement practices and techniques can be introduced in everyday service delivery situations.
Conversational tips: Talking with clients and their families/carers
This tool is designed to help staff to have conversations with clients and their families/carers about wellness and reablement. It provides conversational tips for communicating the approach and its benefits.
Continuous improvement template
This template steps out guidance on how to incrementally review, plan and deploy improvements within your Commonwealth Home Support Programme organisation.
Commonwealth Home Support Programme Reablement Community of Practice
This online forum is focused on supporting you and your colleagues to share ideas, best practice and practical examples to embed wellness and reablement into your everyday service delivery practices.
Wellness and reablement change management plan: Step-by-step guide
This tool provides a process to systematically identify and capture change activities through a change management template and provides examples to help get started.
'I have dementia' card
If you are out in public, you may need to let other people (for example the bus driver, cafe staff or receptionist) know that you, or the person you support, has dementia. This card discretely alerts people that you may require their help and support.
Getting to know you
This booklet is designed for you to obtain as much information as possible relating to your family member’s care needs, so that the care provided by you at home can be continued as closely as possible by others.
Focus on the Person tool for home carers
This form helps a carer keep an up-to-date source of information that can help hospital staff tailor care for your loved one. It is designed on the principles of person-centred care, which values each person as an individual.
Environment Activity Cards - ideas to spark conversation at work
The Dementia Training Australia Environment Activity Cards aim to spark conversations among staff, residents and visitors about residential aged care and retirement living buildings.