Wellness & Reablement Resources
Department of Health and Aged Care wellness & reablement resources
The Department has developed a range of resources to help Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) service providers embed wellness and reablement approaches into their organisational practices and service delivery.
Resource collection
This collection of practical guides and tools will help you embed wellness and reablement approaches into your service delivery.
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Podcasts
A podcast series is available to supplement the Government’s MACLE online training modules. They can also be listened to on their own.
The podcasts promote the value and benefits of adopting a wellness and reablement approach, and how this can help your clients to have more good days by helping to support their independence.
Commonwealth Home Support Programme Manual 2022-2023
How to Create Great Case Studies –A toolkit for sharing useful stories about your practice
The toolkit contains 6 short PDF guides. They’re easy to follow and lay out the steps you can take to make great case studies.
The guides are evidence based. And they’ve been tried and tested with local service providers. The toolkit will have you thinking about case studies in new and exciting ways.
The Toolkit and Video were produced by Sector Support & Development: North Metro & West Metro and Red Hat Films.
Go to the Great Case Studies website to download the toolkit and templates.
When you’re there, check out the video that gives a quick overview of how to use the toolkit.
Living Well at Home – CHSP Good Practice Guide
This guide helps service providers understand the concepts and principles of wellness, reablement and restorative care approaches in services delivered under the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP).
Keeping Active Toolkit
The Keeping Active at Home toolkit encourages and supports older people to remain as active at home as they can. By actively engaging in household tasks, older people maintain control of their life, personal decisions and preferences.
Produced by The Southern Metro Sector Development Team and Red Hat Films
The toolkit includes:
Keeping Active Client Brochure
The brochure can be used by staff as a conversation starter. It can be used to gently follow up and build upon previous conversations about keeping active in the home.
English, Vietnamese, Greek, Italian, Arabic, Traditional Chinese versions.
Keeping Active Planner
The planner is a helpful way to motivate older people to plan their household activities.
Keeping Active Staff Guide
Information for aged care support workers to encourage older people to keep active around the home and garden.
Keeping Active Tip sheet
A tip sheet with ideas you can share with older people about easier, efficient or more active ways to do household tasks.
Keeping Active Facilitator Notes
How to use this toolkit with your staff.
Easy Living Equipment Toolkit
This toolkit helps older people to choose simple assistive equipment to better manage everyday tasks. The resource also supports staff to have conversations with older people about easy living equipment.
Produced by The Southern Metro Sector Development Team and Red Hat Films
Easy Living Equipment Client Handout
Supports staff to have a discussion with older people about what activities they are having difficulties with and what equipment may help. This can be printed and left with the client.
Easy Living Equipment Guide
This guide is for staff. It includes pictures of Easy Living equipment, a short description, approximate cost and where to purchase.
Funded Easy Living Equipment Information sheet
Explains the Geat2Go funding process for older people who are not able to purchase Easy Living equipment.
Service specific goal setting and care planning
This resource provides an overview of person centred goal setting and care planning as key elements of practice in the Commonwealth Home Support Programme.
Monitoring, Feedback and Review of service specific care plans
This resource is designed to support staff working in the Commonwealth Home Support Programme to use and maintain service specific care plans through ongoing monitoring, feedback and review practices.
Embedding a strengths based approach in client conversations
This resource gives an overview of what a strength based approach is and presents practical strategies to implement the approach.
Reducing duplication in service specific assessments
This resource focuses on practical strategies service providers can use to reduce duplication and streamline their assessment processes for staff and clients.
These resources were developed by Kate Pascale & Associates with the Eastern, North Metro and West Metro Sector Development Teams.
Strategies for combatting ageism through age-positive language
Ageism is a common experience in Australia and its negative impacts on health and wellbeing are significant. For this reason, NARI has developed an age-positive language guide.
The guide provides practical examples of how words, phrases and images can better portray older people and combat ageism.
More Good Days video
This video shares experiences and stories from CHSP staff and community members who were asked, “What does having more good days mean in your work with people, and in your life?”
The guide provides reflection questions to support staff conversations focused on quality improvement, with links to the Aged Care Quality Standards.
The Support Loop
Managing support plans, client goals and feedback from Community Support Workers to ensure reliable, client focused care. The resource was produced by Sector Support & Development: North Metro, West Metro and Roger Hastrich and the video was produced by Red Hat Films.
Meet an Advocate
In these 3 short audiograms we meet an advocate and hear what the role involves.
We also learn how advocates work with older people and service providers. (1-2min each)
To find out more about advocates go to Elder Rights Advocacy