Support from the Gillard Government’s Zero Real Interest Loans initiative has helped deliver more aged care services in Deloraine.
The Government’s Zero Real Interest Loans initiative provides low-cost finance to aged care providers to support the construction or expansion of aged care facilities in areas of need.
Minister for Ageing Justine Elliot toured the $1.3 million extension at Kanangra Hostel that is providing nine new beds supported by a $100,000 Zero Real Interest Loan. Kanangra Hostel can now provide care for 48 residents.
Minister Elliot said: “The Gillard Government is supporting the development of new aged care places through capital grants and low-cost finance.
“We believe older Australians deserve better. Better health services and better aged care services and that is why we are getting on with the job of reforming our health, hospitals and aged care system.
“In the last Budget, the Government has extended the Zero Real Interest Loans initiative to support the development of up to 2,500 new aged care places.
“A strong economy and decisive action by the Government during the global financial crisis has enabled these important investments to be made, providing a fairer share and more support for older Australians and their families,” Minister Elliot said.
Tasmanian aged care providers have already been offered more than $16 million in Zero Real Interest Loans to support 130 new aged care places. The initiative has resulted in 15 new places delivering services with a further 79 places in the construction and planning phases.
Minister Elliot said: “Providing low-cost finance is a practical and commonsense way we can help aged care services expand. It is great to see Tasmanian aged care providers taking full advantage of this assistance from the Government.
“In addition to the construction jobs, the facility provides an ongoing boost to the local economy, creating more jobs in the aged care sector,” Minister Elliot said.
The Gillard Government is reforming aged care. We are taking full funding and policy responsibility to build a nationally consistent system. This national system will be supported by one-stop shops for better access to services, more highly qualified staff, more aged care places, better access to GP and primary care and stronger protections for older Australians receiving care.
Souce: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
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20100706
Reforms Means Better Health Services for Older Residents of Devonport
Devonport seniors today joined Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot and Member for Braddon Sid Sidebottom to discuss the Gillard Government’s health and aged care reforms which mean better support and better care for older Australians.
Minister Elliot said: “Older Australians are among the first and the biggest beneficiaries of the Government’s health reforms.
“We believe older Australians deserve better. Better health services and better aged care services and that is why we are getting on with the job of reforming our health, hospitals and aged care system.
“Local Hospital Networks, local aged care services and primary care services will work together to provide better care to older Australians.
“A strong economy and decisive action by the Government during the global financial crisis has enabled these important investments to be made, providing a fairer share and more support for older Australians and their families,” Minister Elliot said. Member for Braddon Sid Sidebottom said: “Almost 15 per cent of Tasmania’s population is aged 65 years and over and the Government’s reforms will build a health system that people can rely on, one that extends care beyond the hospital door.
“The Labor Government has already delivered the most significant reforms to the pension system in its 100 year history. For more than 20,000 pensioners in Braddon, these reforms have delivered increases of up to $100 a fortnight for single pensioners and $74 a fortnight for couples combined.
“Now we are working on reforms that will help older Australians have better health, hospitals and aged care services”, Mr Sidebottom said.
Minister Elliot explained how the Government’s investment of more than $900 million over the next four years will build a seamless national aged care system covering basic care at home through to high level residential care.
Minister Elliot said: “We are building a national aged care system with more aged care places, more highly skilled aged care workers, better access to GP and health services and stronger protections for those receiving care.
“The Government is also making it easier for older Australians and their carers to find the services that best suit their need by establishing one-stop shops for aged care information and assessment,” Minister Elliot said.
Delivering better health and aged care in Braddon
Last year more than 1,180 older people in Braddon received aged care services
This Government last year provided:
+ More than $35 million to aged and community care providers to provide care;
+ $5 million for a GP Super Clinic in Devonport;
+ $791,800 of elective surgery funding for the North Western Regional Hospital for surgical equipment; and
+ More than $684,000 was provided to support four respite services.
Souce: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Minister Elliot said: “Older Australians are among the first and the biggest beneficiaries of the Government’s health reforms.
“We believe older Australians deserve better. Better health services and better aged care services and that is why we are getting on with the job of reforming our health, hospitals and aged care system.
“Local Hospital Networks, local aged care services and primary care services will work together to provide better care to older Australians.
“A strong economy and decisive action by the Government during the global financial crisis has enabled these important investments to be made, providing a fairer share and more support for older Australians and their families,” Minister Elliot said. Member for Braddon Sid Sidebottom said: “Almost 15 per cent of Tasmania’s population is aged 65 years and over and the Government’s reforms will build a health system that people can rely on, one that extends care beyond the hospital door.
“The Labor Government has already delivered the most significant reforms to the pension system in its 100 year history. For more than 20,000 pensioners in Braddon, these reforms have delivered increases of up to $100 a fortnight for single pensioners and $74 a fortnight for couples combined.
“Now we are working on reforms that will help older Australians have better health, hospitals and aged care services”, Mr Sidebottom said.
Minister Elliot explained how the Government’s investment of more than $900 million over the next four years will build a seamless national aged care system covering basic care at home through to high level residential care.
Minister Elliot said: “We are building a national aged care system with more aged care places, more highly skilled aged care workers, better access to GP and health services and stronger protections for those receiving care.
“The Government is also making it easier for older Australians and their carers to find the services that best suit their need by establishing one-stop shops for aged care information and assessment,” Minister Elliot said.
Delivering better health and aged care in Braddon
Last year more than 1,180 older people in Braddon received aged care services
This Government last year provided:
+ More than $35 million to aged and community care providers to provide care;
+ $5 million for a GP Super Clinic in Devonport;
+ $791,800 of elective surgery funding for the North Western Regional Hospital for surgical equipment; and
+ More than $684,000 was provided to support four respite services.
Souce: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Better Clinical Training for Tasmanian Students - $4.5 Million
Up to an additional 250 medical, nursing and allied health students are expected to be trained in Tasmania each year by 2013 following a $4.5 million commitment for new clinical training infrastructure across the state.
Minister for Ageing Justine Elliot and Member for Lyons Dick Adams today toured the Deloraine Hospital which will receive funding to provide students with access to virtual training centres, additional training rooms and accommodation for students in clinical training.
Minister Elliot said: “We believe hard working Australians deserve better. Better health services and better aged care services and that is why we are getting on with the job of reforming our health, hospitals and aged care system.
“We are increasing the numbers of doctors and nurses and improving training for doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.
“This initiative is one way we are working hard to provide more doctors and nurses. It will help support our additional 1200 GP training places and 1,100 nurses,” Minister Elliot said.
The $4.5 million is being provided through the Gillard Government’s $90 million Innovative Clinical Teaching and Training Grants (ICTTG) program. The program is designed to use innovative models to increase the number of health professionals receiving clinical training.
More than 400 applications for funding were received with total funding requested in excess of $900 million.
Mr Adams said: “A strong economy and decisive action by the Government during the global financial crisis has enabled these important investments to be made, providing a fairer share and more support for Australian families.
“This initiative will allow an extra 128 students to be housed in regional areas each year while they are training, helping to recruit and retain doctors and nurses in areas that we need them most.
“The Gillard Government is determined to deliver better health care and today’s announcement is great news for patients, families and students in Tasmania,” Mr Adams said.
Deloraine Hospital will become one of five new Rural Interprofessional Clinical Education and Training Centres (RICETCs) to deliver the training across regional Tasmania. The four others to be developed are Queenstown, Smithton, St Helens and Oatlands.
Souce: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Minister for Ageing Justine Elliot and Member for Lyons Dick Adams today toured the Deloraine Hospital which will receive funding to provide students with access to virtual training centres, additional training rooms and accommodation for students in clinical training.
Minister Elliot said: “We believe hard working Australians deserve better. Better health services and better aged care services and that is why we are getting on with the job of reforming our health, hospitals and aged care system.
“We are increasing the numbers of doctors and nurses and improving training for doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.
“This initiative is one way we are working hard to provide more doctors and nurses. It will help support our additional 1200 GP training places and 1,100 nurses,” Minister Elliot said.
The $4.5 million is being provided through the Gillard Government’s $90 million Innovative Clinical Teaching and Training Grants (ICTTG) program. The program is designed to use innovative models to increase the number of health professionals receiving clinical training.
More than 400 applications for funding were received with total funding requested in excess of $900 million.
Mr Adams said: “A strong economy and decisive action by the Government during the global financial crisis has enabled these important investments to be made, providing a fairer share and more support for Australian families.
“This initiative will allow an extra 128 students to be housed in regional areas each year while they are training, helping to recruit and retain doctors and nurses in areas that we need them most.
“The Gillard Government is determined to deliver better health care and today’s announcement is great news for patients, families and students in Tasmania,” Mr Adams said.
Deloraine Hospital will become one of five new Rural Interprofessional Clinical Education and Training Centres (RICETCs) to deliver the training across regional Tasmania. The four others to be developed are Queenstown, Smithton, St Helens and Oatlands.
Souce: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Department of Health and Ageing Ministerial and departmental media releases
Better Clinical Training for Tasmanian Students - $4.5 Million
Up to an additional 250 medical, nursing and allied health students are expected to be trained in Tasmania each year by 2013 following a $4.5 million commitment for new clinical training infrastructure across the state.
6 July 2010
New $1.57 million Cooma dementia day-care and HACC centre
Services for older residents and people with a disability of Cooma and surrounds have rece.
6 July 2010
Reforms Means Better Health Services for Older Residents of Devonport
Devonport seniors today joined Minister for Ageing Justine Elliot and Member for Braddon S.
6 July 2010
More Aged Care Beds for North Western Tasmania
Support from the Australian Government’s Zero Real Interest Loans initiative has helped deliver more aged care services in Deloraine.
Up to an additional 250 medical, nursing and allied health students are expected to be trained in Tasmania each year by 2013 following a $4.5 million commitment for new clinical training infrastructure across the state.
6 July 2010
New $1.57 million Cooma dementia day-care and HACC centre
Services for older residents and people with a disability of Cooma and surrounds have rece.
6 July 2010
Reforms Means Better Health Services for Older Residents of Devonport
Devonport seniors today joined Minister for Ageing Justine Elliot and Member for Braddon S.
6 July 2010
More Aged Care Beds for North Western Tasmania
Support from the Australian Government’s Zero Real Interest Loans initiative has helped deliver more aged care services in Deloraine.
20100704
Aged care residents need an apology too
Witnessing an elderly woman with terror in her eyes, shouting incoherently as she struggled in a restraint chair in the corridor of an aged care facility while staff ignored her and attended to paperwork for the facility’s accreditation has led a Charles Sturt University (CSU) nursing academic to question the meaning of the Rudd government’s coming apology to ‘The Forgotten Australians’ who were detained in government welfare institutions in bygone decades.
Dr Maree Bernoth, a lecturer at the CSU School of Nursing and Midwifery at Wagga Wagga, says that unless there is urgent reform to the delivery of residential aged care, future governments will also end up apologising to the victims of current institutional abuse and neglect.
“The neglected group of Australians who grew up in brutal and loveless institutions deserve the apology from Mr Rudd, to be announced shortly, and I sincerely hope that it assists with their recovery from the traumas of their past,” Dr Bernoth said.
“But the meaning of the apology must come into question, however, as this apology implies that we have learnt from the past and will not perpetrate these conditions on Australian citizens again.
“There is still a group of Australians, who are older and/or have a disability in many residential aged care facilities, who live in environments in which physical and emotional abuse and, sometimes, sexual abuse, occurs.”
Dr Bernoth’s PhD research into what it means to be safe in aged care was presented at the Emerging Health Policy Research Conference at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy in August this year.
“We do not know who is a victim, or in which residential aged care facility, but we do know that abuse and neglect occurs. This is substantiated in my research. Furthermore, the way complaints about this are handled was illustrated on ABC television’s 4 Corners program, The End of the Line, which was shown on Monday 1 June this year,” she said.
She says that the auditing processes must focus on and involve actually observing the residents and care workers, and the emphasis on diverting the accreditation process to ‘folders and paperwork’ must be reduced.
“My research indicates that while the paperwork and the systems are in place, the residents’ incontinence pads remain unchanged for nearly 24 hours; cries for help are ignored as ‘attention seeking behaviour’; the elderly lady is screaming and being held down by a number of staff while having a urinary catheter inserted; and the assistants in nursing bully each other and the residents because of the pressures of time and task and the absence of skilled mentors,” Dr Bernoth said.
“But the elderly and disabled people living in nursing homes will not demand an apology, they will not speak out or cause a fuss, and they are not a group the litigation lawyers are concerned about. Instead, they continue to die in pain and with no dignity.
“When Mr Rudd delivers the apology, he needs to do so with the knowledge that the conditions that traumatised The Forgotten Australians continue to have a large impact on many of our most vulnerable citizens, the frail aged and the disabled.”
Dr Maree Bernoth, a lecturer at the CSU School of Nursing and Midwifery at Wagga Wagga, says that unless there is urgent reform to the delivery of residential aged care, future governments will also end up apologising to the victims of current institutional abuse and neglect.
“The neglected group of Australians who grew up in brutal and loveless institutions deserve the apology from Mr Rudd, to be announced shortly, and I sincerely hope that it assists with their recovery from the traumas of their past,” Dr Bernoth said.
“But the meaning of the apology must come into question, however, as this apology implies that we have learnt from the past and will not perpetrate these conditions on Australian citizens again.
“There is still a group of Australians, who are older and/or have a disability in many residential aged care facilities, who live in environments in which physical and emotional abuse and, sometimes, sexual abuse, occurs.”
Dr Bernoth’s PhD research into what it means to be safe in aged care was presented at the Emerging Health Policy Research Conference at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy in August this year.
“We do not know who is a victim, or in which residential aged care facility, but we do know that abuse and neglect occurs. This is substantiated in my research. Furthermore, the way complaints about this are handled was illustrated on ABC television’s 4 Corners program, The End of the Line, which was shown on Monday 1 June this year,” she said.
She says that the auditing processes must focus on and involve actually observing the residents and care workers, and the emphasis on diverting the accreditation process to ‘folders and paperwork’ must be reduced.
“My research indicates that while the paperwork and the systems are in place, the residents’ incontinence pads remain unchanged for nearly 24 hours; cries for help are ignored as ‘attention seeking behaviour’; the elderly lady is screaming and being held down by a number of staff while having a urinary catheter inserted; and the assistants in nursing bully each other and the residents because of the pressures of time and task and the absence of skilled mentors,” Dr Bernoth said.
“But the elderly and disabled people living in nursing homes will not demand an apology, they will not speak out or cause a fuss, and they are not a group the litigation lawyers are concerned about. Instead, they continue to die in pain and with no dignity.
“When Mr Rudd delivers the apology, he needs to do so with the knowledge that the conditions that traumatised The Forgotten Australians continue to have a large impact on many of our most vulnerable citizens, the frail aged and the disabled.”
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