AN ACC
Class 8 to 11
End of Year wrap up
Another huge year for our aged care industry with changes to our Act, Standards, Care Minutes, AN ACC, reporting and HELF. Thank you for our shared time over this year and cheers to new beginnings! May you enjoy your well deserved break and wishing you and your loved ones the
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Class 8 progress note
An example of progress notes for a class 8 resident.
December lets chat - postponed (again)
Funding
Changes to funding?
Changes on the horizon to funding and care minutes!
HELF
I'll get by With a little HELF from my friends...
Don't forget, you MUST start to implement HELF as soon as you can to offset the declining income through government funding.
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Prioritising evidence in AN ACC
prioritising documentation
Funding
What happens after RADs?
Our wonderful colleagues have kindly permitted their discussion paper on Capital Funding for aged care to be published on this website. It certainly makes some valid points for the future of aged care in Australia. Definitely worth the read.
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Activities of Daily Living
The two approaches in documenting for activities of daily living depend if the AN ACC class will be in the assisted mobility branch OR the not mobile branch.
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Frailty - it is important!
Frailty has an underlying strength in contributing to higher AN ACC classes. It is critically important progress notes discuss the increasing frailty of the resident being discussed. Some examples of frailty notes might look like this:
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Behaviour documentation
In my webinar I discuss the cognitive measurements applied in an AN ACC assessment. A progress note example might look similar to this: