Absolute Home Care

19/03/2020

Seeking support staff
Positions Available: Support Worker / Home and Community Care Worker.

Positions are available for Support Workers who are willing to work a range of shifts. We have a number of shifts available for veteran Affair, Home Care Package and private clients. These shifts can include Personal Care, Domestic Assistance, Social Support, Transport, Meal Prep and Respite. They can be morning, day and evening shifts.

You must be caring, considerate and reliable. You must also have good communication skills and time management.

• Paid time travel between clients

• Friendly supportive coordinators

• Penalty Rates

• Career Development

This role is rewarding and exists for you to use your skills & compassion to enhance the lives of people we support. These clients live in their own home across the ACT and Regional NSW locations.

Essential.
For all personal or respite care services you must be currently working towards or completed Cert 111 in aged care. Working towards Nursing diploma or degree - Other services available for applicant who do not have these but below credentials essential

A reliable comprehensive insured motor vehicle.

Mobile Phone

Current Australian drivers license.

Current Provide First Aid certificate.

Working with Vulnerable People Check.

Current POLICE CHECK

Good communication skills

Australian resident

Please only apply if you live in the ACT or surrounding ares.
Please contact amys@absolutehomecare.com.au or 6112 8886- during business hours.

29/05/2019

New date for next AHC Staff Meeting will be Wednesday 5th June. Venue is AHC office at 1pm. Guest speaker is a tax accountant talking about your taxable deductions.

19/06/2017

Staff Meeting this week:
North side Tuesday 20th
South side Wednesday 21st
Both start at 2pm

20/12/2016

Aging but Resilient Brain: Keeping Neurons Happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5i3jBhxI4Q

(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Joel Kramer, UCSF Professor of Neuropsychology and the Director of the Memory and Aging Center Neuropsychology program. He explo...

20/12/2016

News of Health and Ageing #2016-2017 MYEFO Drives Health Reform

Supporting older Australians

Aged care reform continues. MYEFO 2016–17 outlines changes to previously announced measures relating to funding for the Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI), which determines the level of funding the Government pays to providers. The changes balance the need to fund the nation’s continually growing aged care bill, while taking into account provider concerns around the impact of the initial changes on the subsidies they claim for residents needing the highest level of care. This will ensure impact of the initial measure is more evenly spread.

In place of its changes, the Government is pausing indexation to all ACFI care domains in 2017–18, and implementing a 50 per cent indexation pause to the highest level of care – the Complex Health Care domain – in 2018–19. The combined impact of the changes to the Budget ACFI measures and indexation pause is a saving of $21.6 million over four years.

The Government is allocating $2.4 million in 2016–17 for a small pilot in 2017 to test alternative funding models for residential aged care funding. This will inform changes to the ACFI, including possibly replacing ACFI, and taking assessment of residents’ needs out of providers’ hands, and having the assessment done externally.

The Government will invest $19.3 million over four years to increase the viability supplement which will support eligible rural, remote and homeless providers who may otherwise be more affected by the impacts of ACFI changes, building on the increase to the viability supplement already announced in the Budget.

Extended funding of $10.8 million for the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency will enable it to continue unannounced site visits to aged care homes in 2017–18. A levy to be paid by providers will be introduced from 1 July 2018.

Another measure – a 2016 election commitment – will establish specialist dementia care units to care for people with very severe behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. This measure is cost neutral over five years.
(http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ministers/publishing.nsf/Content/health-mediarel-yr2016-leySL109.htm)

The 2016–17 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook further advances the Australian Government’s health reform agenda.

12/12/2016

, Ageing and Carers, Australia: Summary of Findings, 2015(http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/C258C88A7AA5A87ECA2568A9001393E8?Opendocument)

Older people

The SDAC also collects information from older people (those aged 65 years and over) to determine how ageing impacts a person's life and experiences. Like many other developed countries, Australia has an ageing population. There were around 3.5 million older Australians in 2015, representing one in every seven people or 15.1% of the population. This proportion has increased from 14.3% in 2012, making it increasingly important to understand the characteristics and needs of older Australians.

In 2015:
◾Older Australians living in households were more active, with the proportion that participated in physical activities for exercise or recreation increasing from 44.5% in 2012 to 49.2% in 2015.
◾The majority of older Australians were living in households (94.8%), while 5.2% or one in twenty lived in cared accommodation such as nursing homes.
◾While the proportion of older Australians has increased, the prevalence of disability amongst them has decreased. In 2015, 50.7% of older people were living with disability, down from 52.7% in 2012.
◾Two-thirds of older Australians (67.3%) that reported their income lived in a household with an equivalised gross household income that was in the lowest two quintiles. This proportion has decreased from 74.6% in 2012.

For further information, please refer to the section on Older People.

Carers

Information about carers is another important component of the SDAC. In the survey, a carer is defined as a person who provides any informal assistance, in terms of help or supervision, to older people (aged 65 years and over) and those with disability. Assistance must be ongoing, or likely to be ongoing, for at least six months. A primary carer is the person who provides the most informal assistance to a person with disability with one or more of the core activities of mobility, self-care and communication. In this survey, primary carer information was collected for people aged 15 years and over.

The information collected provides an insight into many different characteristics of carers and how caring impacts on their lives. In 2015, almost 2.7 million Australians were carers (11.6%), with 856,100 people (3.7%) aged 15 years and over identified as primary carers. These patterns were similar to those in 2009 and 2012.

In 2015:
◾The average age of a primary carer was 55 years.
◾Over one-third of primary carers (37.8%) were living with disability themselves.
◾Females made up the majority of carers, representing 68.1% of primary carers and 55.5% of all carers.
◾For people aged 15 to 64 years, the labour force participation rate for primary carers (56.3%) and other carers (77.2%) was lower than for non–carers (80.3%).

This publication presents information from the 2015 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers (SDAC). It follows the release of the First Results in April 2016, which are also included in this publication. As part of this publication, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released a short podc...

12/12/2016

and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA-2016)

We have had a busy year with the implementation of the revised registration standards and standards for practice. To ensure that nurses and midwives are aware of the changes to the standards, we have held information forums across the country and spoken to more than 5,000 nurses and midwives at these events. We received excellent feedback from those who attended the forums and the members of the NMBA enjoyed meeting with nurses and midwives and talking to them about regulation. Thank you to all the nurses and midwives who took the time to come and learn about the changes.

We recently released the 2015/16 Annual report, which provides information about the work of the NMBA in partnership with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). In 2015/16, we have seen a 16.2% increase in the number of applications for registration as a nurse or midwife. On a national basis, the percentage of registered health practitioners who received a notification during the year was 1.5%, but only 0.5% of nurses and 0.3% of midwives were the subject of a notification. This means that most nurses and midwives are doing a great job and practising in line with the expected standards of the professions.

This year we have kept you informed as we reviewed the codes of conduct for nurses and midwives. We will release the draft codes of conduct for public consultation on our website in January 2017, so look out for an email from us asking for your feedback.

We have also been updating you throughout 2016 about the development of the national health support service for nurses and midwives. Our work to have the service commence in early 2017 is progressing well and we are looking forward to this resource being available to assist nurses and midwives with their health.

I would like to thank the members of our National Board and state and territory boards, and the staff from AHPRA who support them, for their contributions to the work of the NMBA during this year.

I wish you all a safe and happy festive season and thank you for your ongoing commitment to your professions.

01/12/2016

Party (AHC) will be a 'Pool Party' @ Helen Armstrong residence on Sat the 17/12/16 in the afternoon. Further details will be provided in the near future.

10/11/2016

Meeting Notice:
Monthly RN/EN meeting
Date:Wednesday 30th Novemeber
Venue:AHC office.
Time: 1-2pm