Speak Out OCTOBER 2019 V3 DIGITAL EDITION

Aged care

Active advocacy in Aged Care

Reminder about DVA changes Allied Health Treatment Cycle initiative commences 1 October 2019 New information regarding the Treatment Cycle Initiative is now live available on the DVA website , together with revised Allied Health Provider Notes, revised Speech Pathology Provider Notes and revised Fee Schedule. It is important to familiarise yourself with these changes. Also, refer to the revised SPA DVA FAQ Information Sheet, and new SPA DVA - Transition to Allied Health Treatment Cycle Initiative FAQ on the SPA website for further details and listen into the SPA Podcast on ‘DVA Update’. As always, please feel free to contact National Office at any time with any further queries or comments. SPA has secured a face to face meeting with the new Aged Care Minister, Senator Richard Colbeck in October! We are now seeking your input: We want your stories! GOOD NEWS STORIES wanted. Do you work with a residential aged care facility or organisation with a new / exciting / different model of care or where things have worked really well? SPA has secured a face to face meeting with the new Aged Care Minister Senator Colbeck in October and would love to get your feedback on what a model of care that appropriately supports the communication and mealtime / swallowing needs of all older people could / should look like to help inform this discussion. Please send your case studies / stories or thoughts to agedcare@speechpathologyaustralia.org.au Face-to-face with Aged Care Minister Senator Richard Colbeck Kym Torresi Senior Advisor Aged Care agedcare@speechpathologyaustralia.org.au 1300 368 835

SPA has continued to be active in Aged Care Representation and Advocacy, including participation in: • The National Aged Care Alliance (NACA) meeting in Canberra, attended by the new Aged Care Minister. • The NACA Care at Home Reform Working Group, including inputting to development of a Position Paper on Home Care Packages (highlighting the value of allied health input) and meeting with the Department of Health in Canberra regarding the Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) future. • The NACA Health and Ageing Interface Working Party and Disability and Ageing Working Party. • DVA National HealthCare Provider Partnership Meeting and teleconferences around new treatment cycle initiative arrangements, changes to the RAP scheme, review of Provider Notes, etc. • Department of Health meeting re ‘Dementia in the Community Project’. The Department is currently The SPA Aged Care Working Party is working on its planned presentation at the upcoming AAG (Australian Association of Gerontology) Conference in November. Member resources on practice impacts of IDDSI roll out, Dignity of Risk/Dysphagia and the new Aged Care Standards, and ‘Communication access Toolkit’ – mapping the Aged Care Standards to communication access are planned for development The SPA Position Statement on (Risk Feeding) - The role of the speech pathologist in supporting informed choice in dysphagia is being developed by the SPA Project Officer Andrea Whitehouse in regular consultation with the PS Working Party. Work is on track for planned release in early 2020. Meetings with DHHS and Care Navigators continue to discuss impacts of the implementation of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act in Victoria for speech pathologists. framing its policy objectives and future system design for meeting the needs of people with dementia – and SPA will be involved in inputting into this discussion and future Clinical Guidelines.

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