Resources

This template from the Department of Health and Aged Care steps out guidance on how to incrementally review, plan and deploy improvements within your Commonwealth Home Support Programme organisation.

A video case study from Opal HealthCare about restorative care in a residential aged care setting. It tells the story of George who had a stroke almost four years ago, which left him in a wheelchair. (2 min)

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.

This tool from the Department of Health and Aged Care provides a process to systematically identify and capture change activities through a change management template and provides examples to help get started.

This checklist from the Department of Health and Aged Care serves as a guide for service providers to carry out an effective patient centred and goal oriented care plan.

A resource designed to support services to implement effective restorative care and reablement for people living at home with dementia.

This video from Opal HealthCare shares Darrieux’s experience of receiving cardiac rehabilitation as part of aged care. (2 min)

This Learner Guide from the Queensland Government has been developed specifically for Allied Health Assistants to provide the necessary knowledge and foster the skills required to work with clients to support rehabilitation within the community.

This article discusses the history and evolution of reablement programs in Australia.

This short video from italk studios seeks to inform Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities about caring for family members who have dementia. Through the story of Peter and Janey, information is presented about what dementia is, the symptoms, and providing support to people who have dementia. (6 min)