The Community Care Coalition

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The Community Care Coalition

• Greg Mundy
• CEO
• Aged and Community Services Australia

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Why ?

• Community care needs its own space
• Aged care ? residential care
• Community care ? aged care
• Many stakeholders
• A chorus is louder than a single voice
• National Aged Care Alliance has worked well
• Community care is important, but not well
  understood.

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How ?

• Grant from The Myer Foundation
• Community care No 1 recommendation
• First national community care summit (2003)
• How to take this forward?
• ACSA provides secretariat, acts as convener
• Coalitions also in most States/Territories
• Preliminary meeting December 2003

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Who ?

• 23 National Organisations
• ACOSS
• ACROD
• Aged and Community Services Australia
• Alzheimers Australia
• Australian Association of Gerontology
• Australian Meals on Wheels Association

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Who ?

• AMA
• ANF
• Anglicare Australia
• ANHECA
• Australian Council of Community Nursing Services
• Australian Local Government Association

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Who ?

• Australian Society for Geriatric Medicine
• Baptist Community Services
• Carers Australia
• Case Management Society of Australia
• Catholic Health Australia
• Catholic Welfare Australia

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Who ?

• Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of
  Australia
• Mental Health Council of Australia
• The Returned Services League of Australia
• UnitingCare Australia
• Volunteering Australia

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What ?

• THREE KEY MESSAGES
• Why Community Care matters
• Current community care services cannot meet
  existing demand
• Need for a simpler community care system

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Overall Aim

• Community care is generally not well known or
  understood by the general public or in the public
  policy arena.
• The overall aim of the awareness campaign is to
  ensure a greater knowledge, focus and priority on
  community care in public policy debate and
  setting.

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Action so far

• Postcard campaign
• Information packs for MPs and Senators
• Fact Sheets
• Hotly debated by Government
• Second national summit (August 2004)
• Submission to Senate Inquiry into Aged Care
• Appearance before Senate Committee
• Responses to Governments reform program

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Current Action

• Research
• Success of Myer, Carers Alzheimers
• Lobbying and PR
• Policy base
• Coalition members contributing
• Philanthropic funds being sought
• Start in 2005

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The Research

• Are we providing the choices that people want
  including to age in place?
• Where should the balance between residential and
  community care be struck?
• How can we take this forward in the context of
  our ageing population?

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The Brief

• Stage 1
• Critical analysis of the development of the
  community care system in Australia
• Examine its effectiveness
• Identify option for future expansion
• Has it really improved consumer choice?
• Adequacy of current planning frameworks
• Linkages with other systems

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The Brief

• Stage 2
• Develop options for the expansion and development
  of community care
• Review demographic projections
• Analyse resource utilisation trends
• Analyse changes in service delivery and
  consumers views preferences
• Assess the impact of other policies

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The Outcome

• Provide a basis for
• Informed community debate
• Policy development
• Service planning
• For use by the Community Care Coalition
• Completion in mid-late 2006

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Other Current Action

• Responses to Government reform program
• Tender process
• Current consultancy projects soon to report
• Victorian CCC also doing research
• Good practice models
• Funding, indexation and utilisation
• Dementia EACH Packages
• Response to Government Hogan paper?
• Investigation of consumer-directed care

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Conclusion

• The Community Care Coalition is alive and well
• Has an active work program for next 15 months
• State CCCs at various stages of resourcing and
  development
• Our work is not yet done

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