Murray Mallee Ageing Taskforce
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Top level
Information
Reports & Plans
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Author: Sue Piggott
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Publishing date: 22 August 2005 8:03pm
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STRATEGIC PLAN
2004-2006 - Plain English Version
Our Vision
That people in the Murray Mallee continue to remain independent and active as they age.
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Aged care and other health related service providers have experienced a growing demand for their services over the last decade. As a partial response to increasing demand for aged care services the Murray Mallee Ageing Taskforce (MMAT) was formed in 2001. The MMAT is a collaborative network of organizations that provide services to older people in the Murray Mallee and include residential and community care services, district hospitals, health services, consumer groups and local government. It encompasses services in the local government areas of Murray Bridge, Mid Murray, the Coorong, Southern Mallee and Karoonda East Murray. The MMAT is auspiced by the Rural City of Murray Bridge
In 2003,the MMAT, with funding provided through the Home and Community Care (HACC) program, set about developing a strategic plan to answer some of the challenges of an ageing population. The strategic plan seeks to set some longer term goals to improve services provided to older people in the Murray Mallee through better regional planning, service provider collaboration and integration, innovation and advocacy. The plan also attempts to develop mechanisms to enhance the voice of older people in the region particularly in rural and remote communities.
The key directions in the plan include:
Participation – Develop & improve services to support older people’s participation in activities that are meaningful for them, whether this means remaining in the family home, maintaining friendships, or pursuing hobbies, interests and recreational activities.
Quality – Work towards improving the quality of those services. In particular the MMAT will work towards providing services that are flexible and meet peoples needs. This means that services will not try and fit people to the services that they provide but instead make the services flexible enough to fit what people need.
Information - Information on services will be promoted in the community and where possible will be available at the earliest point of contact and will be comprehensive enough for people to make decisions about what they need.
Diversity - Work for the interests of all older people in the Murray Mallee and will particularly consider people who might be disadvantaged because of where they live, the language they speak, their culture or illnesses they may have, such as dementia or depression.
Working together - Work together in conjunction with and with the participation of people who use the services and the broader community.
New ways – Improve services through better coordination where there is duplication or overlap of services, by bringing services together to enable them to better meet the need of older people, and by doing things in new and different ways.
Some of the activities of the MMAT have included undertaking a needs analysis of aged & disability care services to inform the development of the strategic plan. Planning for the future aged and disability care workforce was also identified as a priority. The Murray Mallee Aged & Disability Care Workforce Research study was commissioned to provide baseline information on the current aged and disability workforce in the Murray Mallee, to forecast regional trends in workforce supply and demand and identify factors that influence recruitment and retention of workers.
Further details can be obtained by contacting Gary Sawyer, Project Officer for the MMAT. Phone (08) 8539 1156. Email
g.sawyer@rcmb.sa.gov.au or by post c/o the Rural City of Murray Bridge, PO Box 421, Murray Bridge SA 5253.
For information on services for older people, people with disabilities and carers in the Murray Mallee contact your local Commonwealth Carelink Centre on 1800 052 222 or visit their website on http://www.carelinksa.asn.au/
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