Page 4085 - Week 15 - Thursday, 17 December 1992
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Recommendation 13 is:
Residents of hostels be eligible for HACC funded services, should HACC funds be increased.
This recommendation acknowledges the needs of residents of hostels for HACC funded services. It also acknowledges that HACC funds really need to be increased overall to enable this to occur. We cannot have our existing services trying to do more and more with less funds, and it really is up to the ACT Government to get a better deal out of the Commonwealth as regards HACC services.
Recommendation 14 is:
A review of all HACC Program services be undertaken with a view to these services being delivered in a more efficient manner.
This is especially relevant to the ACT, where the Commonwealth has insisted on previous occasions that new HACC services be established rather than that existing services be extended to meet a wider range of needs.
Recommendation 15 reads:
The Government investigate the feasibility of more appropriately locating the administrative sections of HACC funded services and, in some cases, HACC funded services themselves that operate in the ACT.
This recommendation follows on from the previous one and it does suggest that a major overhaul in this area is necessary. Some services could be better located with the Council on the Ageing, with appropriate funding, and other services could well be effectively located with the existing community services in the regions of Canberra.
Recommendation 17 is:
That an ACT Information Office for the Aged be established to act as a "one stop shop", drawing together all relevant information, both government and non-government, on ageing issues into one location. This Information Office, given appropriate funding, could be formed as an adjunct to the Council on the Ageing in the ACT.
It is important for coordination and dissemination of information, and for publicity and promotion purposes, for this information to be available from the one location. The Council on the Ageing was considered to be the most appropriate location for that information office.
Recommendation 20 reads:
Additional respite beds be made available in the ACT and that, where possible, these additional beds should be co-located with nursing home beds.
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