Dementia and Aged Care Services Fund Support for the Implementation of the Remote Accord

Overview

This opportunity intends to build on the work of the Remote Accord to address the challenges impacting the aged care workforce.The grant opportunity specifically focusses on unique issues in remote and very remote communities and how to make changes and address systemic challenges to provide new service models and creative solutions. The high-level aims are to: 1. Develop guiding principles for engaging with communities. 2. Map aged care and other health services for potential implementation communities. 3. Develop a matrix for classifying services analysing the level of service maturity in a community in order to guide planning of current, and future, service models and reforms. 4. Support the implantation of reforms and measures in three remote/very remote communities exclusively focussed on addressing workforce supply and retention problems. 5. Facilitate collaborative relationships between aged care service providers and other place-based community service providers supporting healthy ageing. 6. Identify potential alternative training pathways and capacity building opportunities for community members to facilitate their engagement in the aged care workforce. 7. Develop a toolbox of strategies for all aged care and community service providers across remote and very remote Australia to sustain and increase a viable workforce. To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "GO Documents" button on the left hand side.