Health Care of Older People in Australia

Question: What are your current views about health care of older people: The Nursing Home; and in Australia? Answer: The aged care service refers to caring people who are more than 60 years old. Caring people of this age group is quite difficult because at this age, people generally include becomes more susceptible to health risk or disorder and immune system also starts to lower functioning. Thus, the aged care services in Australia have been focused upon some special care services to assist their disabilities. Most of the time, the hospitals provide long-term care facilities to the aged people. While handling older people, the medical staffs in hospital have to commit the more on meeting patients physical, emotional and cultural needs (Cameron et al. 2012). It has been emphasized that the personal and social needs of older people are more than other age group and they should treat with dignity. Therefore, specific training for working with older adults is needed for the medical staffs. In Australia, the aged care is designed for assuring that every Australian is contributing as much as possible t o the cost of aged care, according to the income level and assets. In Australian nursing homes, long term residency is provided to the aged people along with financial counseling, health promotion programs, advocacy and other specific services for specific disability of disorders of patients. These include dementia support programs, respite care, care program for depression and other psychological disorders. There are a number of residential care services provided by a number of nursing homes in Australia which provide all the necessary supports to the aged people as a resident of the care homes. Two main strands of residential aged care are available in Australia for aged people including high care places and low care places (Aph.gov.au 2016). Australian institute of health and welfare publishes wide range of information on residential aged care. There are also some community services provided by nursing homes including health care promotional programs. Reference List Aph.gov.au. (2016). 'Caring for the Elderly' - an Overview of Aged Care Support and Services in Australia Parliament of Australia. Cameron, I.D., Gillespie, L.D., Robertson, M.C., Murray, G.R., Hill, K.D., Cumming, R.G. and Kerse, N., 2012. Interventions for preventing falls in older people in care facilities and hospitals.Cochrane Database Syst Rev,12.