New Dementia Report

This is an article written about in Astralian Ageing Agenda Magazine about the importnace of making decisions early when people are affected by memory loss. Who will provide care? Are the finances in order, who will make the decisions about health, care and lifestyle when the person with memory loss cannot. Follow the link below to the full story.


A new a new report written for Alzheimer’s Australia highlights the importance of planning for the end as soon as a diagnosis of dementia is made, and it's author is on tour explaining its contents in seminars around Australia.

Check out this link
http://www.australianageingagenda.com.au/2011/04/19/article/Be-prepared/MRVCWEFHSZ.html

Who would you put in charge of making decisions for you?

Working in Aged Care

Are you reaching your aged care career goals?

At the top of your game?

I thought I would share some inofrmation with you about how you can access funded training if you are working in aged care. The program is outlined in the excerpt below taken from the Dept Health and Ageing website. It is well worth a look.

Aged Care Education and Training Incentive Program

The Aged Care Education and Training Incentive (ACETI) program will provide incentive payments to eligible aged care workers who undertake specified education and training programs.

In this section:

• Working in aged care
• Working in aged care - Programs
• Aged Care Education and Training Incentive Program
• Code of Ethics and Guide to Ethical Conduct for Residential Aged Care
• Nurse Practitioner - Like services in Residential Aged Care Services - Evaluation Report
• 2007 National Aged Care Workforce Census and Survey – Who Cares for Older Australians? A Picture of the Residential and Community Based Aged Care Workforce – Final Report

Overview:

In the 2010-11 Budget the Australian Government provided $59.9 million over four years for a national incentive program that will provide payments to eligible aged care workers who undertake further studies to enhance their career as a personal care worker, an enrolled nurse or a registered nurse.

The Aged Care Education and Training Incentive (ACETI) Program will provide incentive payments to eligible aged care workers who undertake specified education and training programs.

This program builds on current workplace training programs that support people working in the aged care sector by providing financial incentives to existing aged care workers who undertake further studies to upgrade qualifications and build their career in aged care.

Who is eligible?

In order to be eligible to receive an incentive payment, aged care workers must meet all the following criteria:

• Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident; and
• Be employed on a full time, part time or casual basis providing direct care in and by an eligible aged care service*:
  • at the commencement of their training (in order to receive the commencement payment);
  • at the successful completion of their training and during your training (in order to receive the completion payment).
• Have a commitment to working in the aged care sector; and
• Commence an eligible training course between 1 July 2010 and 30 June 2014. Commence means the official start date of the eligible training course, not the date of enrolment.

*An eligible aged care service is a Commonwealth funded residential aged care service, a service providing Commonwealth funded community care or flexible care service including CACP, EACH or EACH-D, or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flexible care services.
Here is a link for more inofrmation on what courses are eligible:
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/ageing-rescare-aceti.htm


Please contact ACE North Coast via this link if you are interested in taking up this offer.
http://www.acenorthcoast.com.au/

What is it that you want to achieve in aged care?