Aged Care Projects

AHA has vast experience of residential aged care. This includes

• Operating reviews conducted for over 200 aged care facilities and over 2000 community care providers, across Australia over the past 16 years
• Over 50 major projects conducted on behalf of governments regarding residential aged care including - access to services, costing and funding, quality and quality assessment frameworks, training, ACATs, younger people with disabilities, role of GPs, governance.
• Projects for aged care peak bodies including Development of the Capital Income Calculator Model and the People Before Paper Research project.
• Hands-on experience of many of our team, as nurses caring for residents and/or as managers responsible for the operation of facilities.
• Two of our Directors are members of the Department’s Panel of expert Administrators, for facilities which have failed to meet the aged care standards. Recent appointments include:
  • Kirralee Aged Care, Ballarat
  • View Hills Manor, Endeavour Hills.
    B oth of these appointments achieved good outcomes, one leading to the successful sale of the facility  and the other facility achieved full compliance with all quality standards.

Details are provided for the following projects:

• Supported Residential Services (SRS) Program - Development of a Risk Management Framework for Regulatory Monitoring and the Development of Associated Audit Tools and Processes
• Aged Care GP Panels - 2004 Baseline and 2006 Surveys
• Evaluation of the Aged Care GP Panels Initiative
• Administrator and Advisor for Viewhills Manor aged care facility
  
• Administrator and Advisor for Kirralee residential aged care facility
• Capital Income Calculator Model
• Young people in Nursing Homes Research Project
• Access points - Tasmania and Queensland Pathways and Infrastructure Mapping Projects
• Aged Care Structural Reforms
• ACATs - Development and Delivery of a National Delegation Training Package
• ACATs - Transition Care Training
• Quality Performance Indicators in Public Sector Residential Aged Care Services
• Nursing Home and Hostel Care Review Project
• Aged Care Australia
• Reviews of Aged Care Facilities (Various clients)
• People Before Paper Research Project