Policy document of the health and care of the aged
This assignment is mostly on the aged people and on their health, care and value related issues in the society. This assignment is based on mostly on the people of Australia, and they are categorised as the senior citizen of the country, and therefore age groups have been categorised, and different policies have been bought for the betterment of the health for the aged people. The health policy for the aged people has introduced to provide help to the common people especially for the older people of the society. The policy named as “caring for the elderly” where the main motto of the policy is for the health and care of the elderly people as they are being neglected in some places. Health is a primary thing especially for the elders that should be focused for the betterment of the society, because a healthy society is important that all we need, and for all of us health policy is required especially for the aged, as they have health problems due to their ages. To overcome all of the problems related to health issue of the aged persons, a health policy is much required and therefore the government of the country has bought an act “caring for the elderly” for the aged or older people in Australia.
The purpose and main aim of the Act are to provide services to the older adults of the country. The aged person here is classified as the age group of people above 65 years or more. It is also mentioned in the policy that people of age groups above 60 years would also be given transport concession and discount in the entrance fees of many old age homes and many other places. They have been provided various programs which are also being organised for the older people to make them aware of their health and care in the society. Mostly the facilities were being provided in the old section and disabled. In some case, people above that particular age category doesn’t take this type of facilities, but if we follow accordingly, it’s much needed for people above 75- 80 years as because people with longer life requires this assistance. The policy is mainly introduced for the aged people, and it is first started in early 1900 in South Wales. Pension facilities were being provided by the government of Victoria to the senior citizens of the country comes under this jurisdictions with age above 65 years. In the year of 1908 a city in Australia named as Queensland also introduced pension for the elderly people and after that commonwealth “old age pensions” were also being introduced for the people who are incapable of doing and their age groups are 60 years or 65 years above. The pension was being been introduced in 1910 especially for the women who were eligible and their age is above 60years or more. In the year before 1950, normal or standard aged people had to pay some money for this new policy to the government. The government used to utilise that money primarily for the health of the aged people those who cannot afford their treatment or people below the poverty line. From the year of 1950 and 1960 commonwealth has drastically increased in funding of the nursing home and community care services (Jolley, 2016).
Critical analysis of the policy and its impact on the aged people of the country
Australia has adopted its policy structure to provide services to its large numbers of population of the more elderly population in the society. In the year of 1965 there is gradually increasing population even the elderly people can live due to the development in medical science, and most of them were affected with fatal diseases, and most of them are widely spread, and thus it affects the country in huge numbers, and therefore it raised the caring for the elderly policy and in order the demand for the system continued all over the place. In comparing with other countries, Australia has been experiencing a continuous growth in the elderly people development, in the year of 1990 4 percent of the people above 65years which is almost 3.1 million and by 1990, 12 percent of the population increased which is almost 32 million means a tremendous growth occurred with almost 27 million. By 2030 this is expected to increase approximately 20 percent which is almost going to reach 65million. Since 1960 it has been drastic growth for these older adults mostly the people above 85 years and above, in 1990 2.8 million of this group of individuals has increased after a decade, this is expected to be more than 8.6 million which is nearly 3percent of the total population.
Some aged people cannot be taken care by their family, so they should be taken care by the government and the various healthcare institutions. The healthcare institutions which are specially established for the aged people, take care of the aged people. The aged people can be demonstrated as the persons who are mainly above sixty-five years old. Among the aged people who have a necessity to take the facilities, then they should take the facilities of the policy “caring for the elderly”. The government has created the social security act for the seniors who are deprived in the society from taking care of their health in their later phase of life. The government has controlled this Act and implemented the policy “caring for the elderly” for caring the aged person in the society of Australia. The act is helpful to control the currently implemented policy for the aged people. This policy has been specially implemented for the poor aged persons who are deprived of taking care as they have the lack of financial flexibility. The government has provided various facilities to the aged persons who need those facilities in their later phase of life. The government has implemented the policy to focus on the social security for the aged people. The aged people has to provide security in their later stage of life as they have maintained and fulfilled their duty in their early age of life. The government has though over on the seniors of the society to take care and provide security in this phase of their life.
Consultation with colleagues and customers to develop the updated or new policy
The aged people or the senior citizens should be cared in Australia and all over the world. They are our previous generation, so we should be careful about them by taking care of their health. So, the every country even Australia in the globe should provide some facilities for the aged people of the country to take care of them. The government of the country should take some necessary steps to protect and take care of them. As the whole nation of every country should show respect to the elderly or aged people to the every country, the government also has to evolve some policy to take care of them. The government of Australia has developed in the past a policy which is called “caring for the elderly” to protect and take care of the elderly people on especially Australia (Forrest, 2013). The policy has provided the various facilities to the aged persons of Australia such as the government has provided free transportation facility and free entrance in some old age home etc. Though the government of Australia came forward to provide various facilities to the old or aged people in their country, the consumers and the colleagues had to face different types of problems or issues. So, the policies have some negative sides which created problems to those who have taken the facilities from that policy. The government of Australia has provided various benefits, or they have attempted to provide the various helps to the aged people, so they have thought about the policy. But the aged people has faced different problems to take those facilities from the policy what have been implemented by the Australian government (Lamb-White, 2005).
The aged people have found out that the government has implemented a policy, but the policy has some shortage in it. The government has not provided medical emergency to the aged people who will require the medicines in the unexpected circumstances. The aged people must require the help from the government to cure themselves by taking the important and necessary medicines in the emergency case. The government should provide this type of help to the aged people as their health cannot be deteriorated in the emergency case (Armstrong, 2006). The consumers who have taken the facilities of the policy have felt that the government has managed some care homes for the elderly persons to provide shelter to the poor elder people. The government provides them special care in their uncertain future, but in those facilities, some drawbacks are present. The poor, elderly people has to face those issues with consideration of the particular policy (Wilkinson, 2002).
Replacement of the poor elderly people: The customers who are mainly elderly people has informed their problems related tothe policy, so the service provider of the healthcare organisation have also been informed about the issues by considering the policy “caring for the elderly”. The old people has felt that they have no independence inside the old age homes where the government has placed the aged people. The homes are also subtle for a large number of people who are protected and taken care by the Australian government (Crome, Main and Lally, 2007). The homes are not too much spacious for the aged people to live. The tiny rooms are very problematic for the aged people especially who have breathing problems. The government should consider on that to solve the different issues of the aged people who are most probably above sixty-five years old (Sturdy, 2008).
Another issue has been known from the consultation with consumers with the colleagues that the poor aged people don’t get concession on the living in old age home. The policy of the Australian government only provides the transportation costs and entrance cost fees to the aged people. The persons who don’t have the ability to pay or bear other expenses in their old age, they must have to pay at any cost to the care homes. It is tough for them to pay a large amount of money in their retirement period and they are unable to bear all the costs at their old or later stage in life (Pengelly, 2012).
The consumers have informed to the government representatives about various issues which have been discussed in the above. The aged people are facing many problems in the policy “caring for the elderly” which has been implemented by the government of Australia. The elderly or aged people have faced difficulties in the emergency situation when the aged people have not get proper help from the government sectors. The aged people are not satisfied completely with the policy of the government which has been implemented for them. They now also have to face difficulties in their requirement. The government has implemented this particular policy to take care of them as they are the previous generation in the society. In the critical phase of aged people’s life, they don’t get proper care from the policy (Denig, 2004).
Providing inadequate medication: The government has not thought over the fulfilment of the elderly people, so, they don’t get proper medications in their emergency period. They are not provided spacious or airy room in their serious health condition in their later phase of life. They don’t get proper care, and they felt that there is the variation of care system all over the organization (Stone, 2017). Sometimes the relatives of the aged people cannot meet with them as the authority of the care home has not allowed them to meet with their consumers. The old people have to spend their life most of the time lonely. If the consumers even cannot meet with their relatives for some time, they can be mentally depressed in the old age of their life. The depression can be harmful to their life, and the aged people can be affected by some fatal diseases. They will not be cured in that serious condition if they get affected by the various issues (Office, 2015).
Impact upon health service provider: If the staffs of the healthcare organisations cannot provide proper care to the aged people in the Australian society, the negative impact reflects on the whole nation of the society. So, the staffs of the healthcare organisations should provide proper care through the policy to the elderly people. When the staffs handle the aged people who come to the organisation to be taken care, they have to face different difficulties. They have to provide facilities to the aged persons as well as they have to take complain from them. So, the health care service provider maintains a great and huge responsibility to the aged people.
As the evidence as mentioned earlier, this policy needs to be improved by its structure and for the old elder people of the Australian (Jones, 2005). Here the all a power of attorney is in the hand of the government who can change or modify the faults of this policy to provide better care to the seniors of among Australia. In the very first government should take less amount of cost from the old elder people at the time of entry into a particularly nursing home. In a case of poor, elderly people collecting money is the tough that is the reason the government should offer them for free. Without this policy should be very much effective to be on the side of poor people as per their economic problem. The government should get the information about the financial condition of the poor, elderly public of Australian (Kennedy, 2010).
Financial discounts for the aged persons: They should get the financial discounts by getting a medical facility in the nursing home or caring home. Along with these establishments policy should be favourable for maintaining the old older adults’ choice, their desired need, over all existing structure, etc. these are the necessary implements that should be applied by the government the policy along with the nursing home. Food facility is another important factor for the poor people they should get this facility for the free of cost. The food item is cooked as per their health and age wise. Maintaining the hygiene within the organisation is the essential for the older people be healthy by food and the atmosphere of the nursing home (Chesterman, 2015). The above-mentioned evidence suggested all these implements be implemented within the policy by the government. Government provide the transportation fees for the free of cost to the economically stabled old people in the Australian while they should provide the free of cost facility to the disabled people of the Australia who are suffered much by bad economy. The So, the government should allow those people who need the help, not to them who can pay the fees. So those are the small modifications that are very much essential for the poor, elderly people of Australia. That modification within the policy helps to lead the legislative act to the actual success (Sims, Hill, Davidson, Gunn, & Huang, 2007).
Few recommendations are made up by this policy. As this is a policy for the seniors of Australia is has few benefits or facilities with some drawbacks in its structure. This policy is not capable of giving all the necessary benefits to the poor elder people of the Australian (Fogarty, & Mugera, 2013). So this is that major faults of this policy (Sheldon, & Foust, 2007). That is why the government should improve their policy for the poor elder people of the Australia. For the poor elder people who lives in the nursing home or any government authorised home the total cost or expenses for their living, flooding and others should not take from them. Along with this government should take care of their choices poor desired need within the caring home or nursing home (Peloso, 2002). All the medical appliances should be free for the poor, needy older people. Besides all these the free centre facilities also launched by the government for the, each government authorised nursing homes or sectors. These nursing homes should be more familiars and adaptable for the poor, elderly people. Another facility should start for the poor people in the nursing home is the facility of the entertainment as per their age (“Medical Center Health”, 2000). The entertainment facility provides them happiness and reduces their loneliness within the nursing home or any caring organisation. To avoid the emotional guilt ness of the family for their relative those who are getting the facilities from the nursing home as well as from the governmental policy. So government should take good care of their old people within the organisation. Therefor the government should allocate lots of caring employees in the organisation like the nursing home or caring home to conduct the proper environment within the structure for the better mental health of the poor, elderly people (Knight, 2009). Proper medication and free medical check-ups are needed for the older people who are associated with those organisation. Policies should be allotted with maintaining proper privacy to the poor, elderly people in the nursing home. Along with all a private space and big area should be allocated for the poor people within the organisation by the government of Australian (“Chapter 5. Legislation”, 2016). The government should provide differ type of caring facilities to the different poor elder people who reside their under the care of nursing homes or other organisation. So these are the following recommendation that is very much essential for the poor elder people who come under this policy. These are the necessary improvements needed for the betterment of this policy for the old elder people of the Australia (Knight, 2009).
Conclusion:
this report mainly consists of the policies about the aged people of the Australia. At the very first a brief introduction is described in the chosen policy. In the first paragraph selected policy is described in detail documentation. A brief overview of this policy named caring for the elderly given in the distinct paragraph . Along with the detailed information facilities and the faults are also described in the linked paragraph. Therefore the particular impact of this policy is also discussed. Effect of this policy on the health of the older people of the Australia. After that development or modification of this act is also created as the new or updated policy. Few pieces of evidence are described as they are very much important to provide the review about the new or updated policy for the senior aged people of the Australia. That evidence is reviewed by the experts and for implementing the new practices within the new or updated policy. In the last portion of this paragraph, a recommendation also given for improving the new policy after the implementation.
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