NUR104 Aged Care Website For the Familiar Environment

1.  The majority of older Australian’s continue to live in their own homes, with or without support. Discuss 2 advantages and 2 challenges of older people remaining in their own home.

2. Discuss how an older person can find out about services available through My Aged Care.

3. Identify one organisation applicable to the older person and discuss how it informs the support and protection of older people in Australia. 

Answer:

1. 2 advantages of older people living in their own home:-

• • Elderly people can remain under the care of their families and remain close to them. Home care promotes recovery as hospital stays of aged care facilities can be traumatizing. Being in a familiar environment allows the elderly person for rehabilitating within the comfort zone (Steptoe et al. 2013). A home care honors the elderly people with love and dignity and keep them away from depression and anxiety.
  • Home care can be cost effective and the saves a family from the unnecessary cost of the aged care facilities. As per the recent data the average annual cost in Australia is $85,775 for a private care facility whereas for a home it is about $37,440 per year (Steptoe et al. 2013).

2 challenges of older people staying in their own home:-

• • Elderly people who are frail and cannot cope up with the normal chores of life may face challenges as they have to be in in constant surveillance of the informal caregivers, which can increase the physical and mental burden of the caregiver taking care of the patient. In a family where all the members are working may really find it difficult to look after the elderly people all the time, in such a case elderly people may suffer from falls, lack of autonomy and helplessness (Jamieson & Simpson 2013).

Home care facilities might not contain all the medical amenities that is required for handling the geriatric patients, although various smart home technologies are now available to smoothen the life of the elderly (Morris et al. 2013). Hence

during an emergency condition that patients have rush to the nearby clinical settings and sometimes might not get enough time to get access to the health care.

References

Steptoe, A., Shankar, A., Demakakos, P. &  Wardle, J., 2013. Social isolation, loneliness, and all-cause mortality in older men and women. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(15), pp.5797-5801. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1219686110 

Jamieson, L. & Simpson, R., 2013. Living alone: Globalization, identity and belonging. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057%2F9781137318527

Morris, M.E., Adair, B., Miller, K., Ozanne, E., Hansen, R., Pearce, A.J., Santamaria, N., Viega, L., Long, M. & Said, C.M., 2013. Smart-home technologies to assist older people to live well at home. Journal of aging science, 1(1), pp.1-9. https://dx.doi.org/10.4172/jasc.1000101

 

My aged care services website in the initial step to the access to any health care services. The my aged care website has an open 24x7, landline number that provides all the information about the types of aged care services available, the eligibility criteria for the services, the costs that have to be paid for attaining the membership and provisions for advocacy services. The “my aged care” website is also user friendly that had segregated specific tabs for the service providers and the health professionals (Australian government. 2018).

2. There are also provisions for the emergency care services where the clients can directly  My aged care services website in the initial step to the access to any health care services. The my aged care website has an open 24x7, landline number that provides all the information about the types of aged care services available, the eligibility criteria for the services, the costs that have to be paid for attaining the membership and provisions for advocacy services. The “my aged care” website is also user friendly that had segregated specific tabs for the service providers and the health professionals (Australian government. 2018).

There are also provisions for the emergency care services where the clients can directly 

My aged care services website in the initial step to the access to any health care services. The my aged care website has an open 24x7, landline number that provides all the information about the types of aged care services available, the eligibility criteria for the services, the costs that have to be paid for attaining the membership and provisions for advocacy services. The “my aged care” website is also user friendly that had segregated specific tabs for the service providers and the health professionals (Australian government. 2018).

There are also provisions for the emergency care services where the clients can directly 

My aged care services website in the initial step to the access to any health care services. The my aged care website has an open 24x7, landline number that provides all the information about the types of aged care services available, the eligibility criteria for the services, the costs that have to be paid for attaining the membership and provisions for advocacy services. The “my aged care” website is also user friendly that had segregated specific tabs for the service providers and the health professionals (Australian government. 2018).

My aged care services website in the initial step to the access to any health care services. The my aged care website has an open 24x7, landline number that provides all the information about the types of aged care services available, the eligibility criteria for the services, the costs that have to be paid for attaining the membership and provisions for advocacy services. The “my aged care” website is also user friendly that had segregated specific tabs for the service providers and the health professionals (Australian government. 2018).

There are also provisions for the emergency care services where the clients can directly talk to the health professionals about the changes in the health and other medical matters. The website also contained information about the private services in case the patient is not eligible for the government funded service or the service is not available in the access (Duckett & Willcox 2015). The Money Smart website of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, would help the elderly people with tools and tips to manage the invested money. There are some easily accessible links given in the website that can bring loads of useful information about aged care to the clients.

References

Australian government., 2018. My aged care. This is the place to start. Access date: 12.9.2018. Retrieved from: https://www.myagedcare.gov.au/

Fischer, S.H., David, D., Crotty, B.H., Dierks, M. & Safran, C., 2014. Acceptance and use of health information technology by community-dwelling elders. International journal of medical informatics, 83(9), pp.624-635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2014.06.005  

Duckett, S. & Willcox, S., 2015. The Australian health care system (No. Ed. 5). Oxford University Press. Retrieved from: https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20173279780