Download or read book Ageing and Social Policy in Australia written by Allan Borowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrialised countries worldwide have for years been confronting the prospect of a steadily ageing population. This book, first published in 1997, reflects the breadth of research into gerontology and analyses the major themes and issues in the area of ageing and social policy in both an Australian context and from an international comparative perspective. Topics discussed include unemployment, education, and housing for the aged. Added to this is the contemporary influence of multiculturalism and the challenge it poses to policies and programs that must cater for a growing diversity in the ageing population. A special focus is given to the situation of women and Aboriginal Australians and the specific structural disadvantages they face. This book is essential reading for students and policy-makers in sociology, social and public policy, gerontology, and public health.
Download or read book The Experienced Carer Frontline Leaders in Australia s Aged Care Workplaces written by Helen Croft and published by Pearson Higher Education AU. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Experienced Carer – Frontline Leaders in Australia’s Aged Care Workplaces was written to accompany the Australian Carer, 2e and Caring in the Community. This resource covers all of the compulsory competencies, plus the most popular electives from the Certificate IV in Aged Care.
Download or read book Aged Care Reform Strategy written by Mid-term Review of Aged Care Reform Strategy 1990-91 (Australia) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is a collection of the eight Discussion Papers prepared for the Mid-Term Review"--Title page verso.
Download or read book Economics and Australian Health Policy written by Gavin Mooney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, health services absorbed few resources and provided little benefit. Since then, advances in medical knowledge and techniques have escalated both the benefits and the costs. The affordability of health services is being questioned in even the richest countries, and the economic aspects of health policy have become ever more intrusive. Australia is no exception, with its health system now absorbing 19% of all government tax revenue. Familiarity with economic issues - such as how to assess health outcomes, how to assign resources efficiently and what financial arrangements will promote equity as well as efficiency - is essential to understanding health policy. This is especially so at a time when the economics of health care are being internationally re-examined, with new forms of competition, challenges to public ownership and case-mix funding of hospitals under scrutiny, and a re-evaluation of the benefits of pharmaceuticals and new technologies underway. Economics and Australian Health Policy offers this understanding to readers with and without formal economic training. It starts with an introduction to both the economic way of thinking about health systems, and the context in which those economic questions are raised - the structure of the Australian health system, its culture and its patterns of financial flows. It then describes and appraises from an economic perspective the major components of the system and the policy issues which arise. This collection has been specially commissioned to address both Australia's most pressing policy issues and the needs of public health and health economic policy-makers, academics, commentators and students. The list of contributors reads like a who's who in Australian health economics, who have been encouraged, clearly successfully, to write accessibly yet with authority and conviction.
Download or read book Dementia and Normal Aging written by Felicia A. Huppert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-30 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age has been identified as the strongest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, and is also strongly associated with vascular dementia. With this relationship in mind, this book looks upon the challenge of dementia as establishing its true relationship with normal aging. The traditional disease model of dementia may have obscured important clues about many underlying causes and features of dementia. In this book, experts and pioneers in the fields of aging and dementia make an important contribution to the understanding of dementia by reappraising the latest research in the light of the continuum model. Evidence for and against numerous models of dementia are discussed with particular relevance to the relationship between Alzheimer's and normal aging. Ranging from molecular genetics and fundamental neurobiology to issues of diagnosis and the provision of services, this is a challenging work in its breadth and level of argument, which has far reaching implications for the study of dementia, and indeed of the mind itself. As a review of current thinking and research it will serve as an essential text for clinicians and scientific investigators.
Download or read book Aged Care written by Australia. Law Reform Commission and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review of legislation administered by Dept. of Human Services and health.
Download or read book Discussion Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aged Care Reform Strategy Mid Term Review Stage 2 written by Aged Care Reform Strategy, Mid-Term Review Stage 21991-92. Department Of Health, Housing, Local Government An Staff and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caring in the Community written by Helen Croft and published by Pearson Higher Education AU. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal carers in Australia’s community care environment offer crucial daily support to the frail aged, to those with a disability and to primary carers. Caring in the Community provides a solid, practical introduction to the role and responsibilities for workers caring for clients in their own homes.
Download or read book The Australian Welfare State written by John Wilson and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 1996 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook for tertiary students which provides documentary sources as well as commentaries from academics in the field to outline the historical development of the Australian welfare state. Suitable for introductory courses in social welfare, politics, sociology and public policy. The material is presented in five parts including: policies for the employed in the last century, the struggle of Australian women to receive employment and child-related benefits from the state, the development of policies relating to indigenous and immigrant Australians and how the welfare state has dealt with the aged and refugees. The final part considers documents in Australian history that contrast discordant understandings of the purposes of the welfare state. Includes a table of contents, an index and list of references. Also available in hardback.
Download or read book Care Allowances for the Frail Elderly and Their Impact on Women Care givers written by Jane Jenson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the provision of care allowances or care benefits paid directly to the person in need of care and benefits paid to care-givers. Examines the economic consequences of informal caring work for women care-givers.
Download or read book SPRC Reports and Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caring for Frail Elderly People written by Patrick Hennessy and published by OECD. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are industrialized counties adapting to the changes provoked by an ageing population/ Includes eight detailed studies from Canada, Denmark, France, Japan, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA/.
Download or read book Housing Transitions Through the Life Course written by Andrew Beer and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifetime attitudes to housing have changed, with new population dynamics driving the market and a greater emphasis on consumption. This important contribution to the literature argues that how we think about households and their housing needs to be recast to acknowledge this changed environment and provide a more powerful conceptual framework.
Download or read book Public Policy and Aging written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Key Policy Issues in Long term Care written by Jenny Brodsky and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key policy issues in long-term care (LTC) are complex and the numbers of persons needing such care continue to incease. This volume addresses these issues: the role of and support to the family; integration with health and social systems; case management; and strategies for designing LTC systems.
Download or read book Ageing at Home written by Theresa Cluning and published by Ausmed Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters cover: aged care in the new millennium - retrospect and prospect; normal ageing; holistic care - why and how; legal and ethical issues; cultural issues; ageing people giving and receiving care; medication and the ageing person; and the impact of falls on older people.
