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Before you start, please tell us about yourself
2. What is your name?
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Lyn Polson
4. What is your organisation’s name?
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Taralga Retirement Village
5. What stakeholder category do you most identify with?
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Consumer
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Consumer advocacy organisation
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Approved provider of residential aged care
Approved provider of flexible aged care
Approved provider of home care
Aged care provider peak body
Provider of private aged care or seniors accommodation
Aged Care Assessment Team/Service
Aged care worker
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Health professional
Workforce association or union
Primary Health Network
State and territory government
Local council
Commonwealth agency
Lender or investor/financier
Other
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Facility Manager
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not-for-profit
for-profit
government
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operating a single aged care home only
operating 2 to 6 aged care homes
operating 7 to 19 aged care homes
operating 20 or more aged care homes
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mostly offering single rooms with ensuites
mostly offering single rooms with shared bathrooms
mostly offering shared rooms with an ensuite
mostly offering shared rooms with common bathroom
mostly offering ‘other’ room type
6. Where does your organisation operate (if applicable)? Otherwise, where do you live?
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New South Wales
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Queensland
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Western Australia
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In a remote area
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In a regional area
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Current arrangements
7. What works well under the current residential aged care allocation and places management model for consumers and/or providers?
Strengths of current arrangements for consumers
People get to stay in the area where they grew up and around people and family they have spent their lives with. Residents are able to keep long term relationships and remain an active part of their community and culture.
Strengths of current arrangements for providers
I feel it is so important that facilities like Taralga are able to accommodate the local people, many of whom have played an active part in the community and the facility for many many years. We currently accommodate families of families that have been here and their children plan to come her. It is community orientated, a large percentage of our residents have grown up in this area. most of them went to school together. most residents know each other from before they came into the facility and this creates a common bond. Word of mouth fills our beds and we are a part of the local community. The new aged care standards are based on resident choice, so I feel residents need to continue to have as much choice as possible in all aspects of their care.
8. Are there other issue/s with the current model for the allocation and management of places for residential aged care that have not been covered in this paper?
Are these problems occurring at national level, or only in certain areas (e.g. rural, regional and remote areas) or for particular consumer groups?
I feel we could have cultural acceptance issues as we are regional and all our residents are country people who know each other. If we were to try to accommodate a resident that did not speak English or was from another culture, The residents here would rebel that this person was receiving care in place or before their neighbour or someone they know and went to school with that is a local.
Design principles for alternative allocation models
9. Are the proposed design principles appropriate?
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As we are in a very small community we work very closely with our hospital and we have potential residents who are currently accommodated in the long stay at the hospital awaiting admission
10. Are there any other principles that you consider should be included?
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Please elaborate on your response
I think this could work in larger areas, but in smaller more boutique facilities where you have a group of people who are all from one place and one culture I think consideration must be given to the type of resident
Model 1: Improve the ACAR and places management - Overall model
11. What are your views on the suggested improvements proposed under this model?
Views on model 1
I find that ACCR competition takes a long time and is often the hold up to getting residents into aged care. I think a revamp of the tool and who is allocated to complete the tool is required.
Model 1: Improve the ACAR and places management - Key design considerations
12. How can this model ensure/encourage adequate supply of and equitable access to residential aged care and residential respite care (aside from increasing funding or revising the funding model), including:
in rural, regional and remote areas and other thin markets?
Allow RN's to complete a competency and be able to complete these in regional areas.
for consumers from vulnerable cohorts (such as Special Needs Groups, consumers with dementia)?
Allow RN's to complete a competency and be able to complete these in regional areas.
13. Are there variations to this model which should be included in the impact analysis?
Model 1 variants
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14. What other key changes could be made to the existing ACAR and/or places management arrangements to encourage a more consumer driven and competitive residential aged care sector?
Other key changes to ACAR
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Other key changes to places management
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