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(a) the quality of aged care services provided to Australians, the extent to which those services meet the needs of the people accessing them, the extent of substandard care being provided, including mistreatment and all forms of abuse, the causes of any systemic failures, and any actions that should be taken in response;
The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS Standards) are Australia's principal health care standards, and apply to all health services including inpatient, outpatient, and community care. [5] There are 8 standards: Clinical governance; Partnering with consumers; Preventing and controlling infections; Medication safety
Elderly care, or simply eldercare (also known in parts of the English-speaking world as aged care), serves the needs of old adults. It encompasses assisted living , adult daycare , long-term care , nursing homes (often called residential care ), hospice care , and home care .
It sets out rules on funding, regulation, approval of providers, subsidies and fees, standards, quality of care,rights of people receiving care and non-compliance. [1] It is the basis of the proposed Aged Care Code of Conduct which is to come into effect on 1 December 2022.
Aged care in Australia (also known as elderly care), is the provision of services to meet the unique needs of older people in Australia. [1]
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The 1980s and 1990s saw care homes becoming a large industry in the UK. Thus, policies ensuring that private care homes are regulated (Registered Homes Act 1984) and patient needs are met (Care Standards Act of 2000) were established. [6] Today, nursing homes are varied. Some nursing homes still resemble a hospital while others look more like a ...
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