Resources

This website provides comprehensive information about the Community Visitors Scheme, which arranges volunteer visits to older people to provide friendship and companionship. Visits are available to anyone receiving government-subsidised residential aged care or Home Care Packages.

This webpage article talks about loneliness in relation to lack of social connection, its impact and some strategies to address it.

The webpage presents some background information about social isolation and loneliness and provides strategies to prevent and address loneliness.

The symptoms of anxiety in older people are sometimes not all that obvious as they often develop gradually and it can be hard to know how much is too much. This webpage describes the signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression in older people.

This programme provides a range of online resources for services providers of the Commonwealth Home Support Programme, to include wellness and reablement strategies in their organisations.

This Aged Care Rehabilitation Service webpage provides an overview of stroke and details of rehabilitation including roles played by physiotherapy and occupational therapy.

Rehabilitation aims to restore function across physical, psychological, social and vocational domains. Allied health professionals play essential roles in delivering cost-effective rehabilitation services. This webpage summarises the role of allied health professionals in the delivery of rehabilitative care.

This is a comprehensive set of home care resources on wellness and reablement that includes videos, articles, toolkits, and professional development courses.

Aged care technology is proving to be essential in managing the lives of older adults and people living with disabilities in assisted living facilities, hospitals, and private homes. This webpage discusses the benefits of embracing technology.

Information regarding advance care planning including decision making, preventing and helping with distress, treating the cognitive symptoms of dementia, other conditions with dementia, good medicines management, questions to ask your doctor, and support and care.