Aged care articles and newsletters to improve care of residents and accreditation and validation compliance!

Aged care and allied health articles
All W&L therapists are constantly asked questions on a number of topics to do with their profession by care staff and other therapists from the same profession.  Due to this demand, we have compiled a number of articles to cover these topics and to keep other professionals within their profession up to date with all the latest ideas, techniques and technologies.  This is also valuable information for family members and care staff who look after the elderly population.

Aged care hot tips!
For the past year W&L has provided a fortnightly ‘hot tips’ information flyer available exculsively to W&L clients.  This has proven to be extremely valuable.  With over 200 facilities that we service, we are able to compile all the facts and information on each site’s validation and accreditation visits.  This information assists our clients with maximising Government funding, complying with all accreditation standards and avoiding downgrades in the Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI).  Through our Corporate Membership you will have access to all past and current ‘hot tips’ from Wellness & Lifestyles.

“We have found the hot tips a great additional training tool for all staff.  We leave them in the staff room, kitchen and office and find staff reading and discussing them.  The information they contain is simple to understand and supports our ongoing education and expectations of staff.”  St. Louis Nursing Home

The following is an example of a section from one of our ‘hot tips’ emails!

Question 12, Part 4a, downgrade:

• Ensure directives are in detail and specify techniques used.
• At one facility the assessments and directives had been completed and an RN was doing the treatments, but because the directive was not in detail and did not specify the techniques used the validator decided there was no difference in the complexity between treatments by the RN and the Carer – so the Part 4a constituted a Part 3.
• If there was a treatment record which showed contrast between the two types of treatment it would have substantiated the claim.