Description and Comparison of Documentation

Question: Discuss about the Description and Comparison of Documentation. Answer: Introduction Aged care means any type of nursing care and daily living support services that are provided to the older people who either require some help at home or cannot live independently any longer. This type of services are normally divided in three categories residential care services, home care services and home and community care (HCC) (Black et al . 2013). The industry which deals with the care services that are provided to the older people is known as the aged care industry. This industry accounts for providing multiple services to the older peoples and allows them to get access to the care of the appropriate level at every place and any situation they require it. This sector emphasizes on supporting the virtues of dignity and comfort that is delivered to the older people of the Australian community and thus it becomes an important contributor to the Australian economy (Zulch et al . 2016). The change in the demographics and the increase ageing population across Australia have increased the demand of the aged care services, moreover this growth will be continued in the future. This shows that the aged care system of the Australia will be sustainable and viable in the future (Gheewala et al 2014). There are some factors like the funding, sustainability related to the further investments and provision for future growth relevant to the industry, and the type of the consumers and their preferences have implication in preparing the landscape of the industry. According to Venturato et al.2013 the aged care facility of Australia is complex and large. From the economic point of view this industry is one of the biggest service industries of Australia which provide employment to almost more than 350,000 employees to foster facilities to over one million people through the 2000 service provider present. There is a significant involvement of the public in this sector and this sector has as commonwealth expenditure of $17.8 billion that is allocated to the supporting aged care services in the year 2016 to 2017 (Adamsand Sharp, 2013). The aged care service providers in Australia are responsible for rendering three varied types of aged care facilities including residential care services, home care services and home and community care (HACC) (Wickramasinghe and Kimberley, 2016). The HACC are engaged in providing the primary level of support and care for the older peoples who require assistance to lead independent lives. The home care comprises four different levels of care offered to the people who are staying at home which range from the primary level of care to high level of care. The residential care includes both support as well as accommodation for those who are willing to live inside the residential age care facility. These services cannot operate isolated they lies adjacent to other sectors and services like the medical and hospital services or the retirement villages. The government of Australia have taken initiatives and regulates the supply of the aged care by making an specification of the national provision of the target of the subsidized the operational places for every 1000 aged people having an age of 70 years or more. The aged care provision ratio is now set to grow from 113 places to 125 places by the time 2012 to 2022 (Bernoth et al. 2014). Table 1 table showing the service type of the Aged care in Australia in the year 2013-2014 Service types HACC Residential care Home care Other Number of Providers 1,676 1,016 504 - Number of places 775,959 189,283 66,149 - Commonwealth funding $1,701m $9,814m $1,271m $1,379m Total Revenue $1.8b $1.3b $14.8b - Requirement for the Aged care in Australia The need for the aged care in the Australian population is increasing day by day. The Australian government has introduced a model of service in keeping with the changing demands to sustain the Australian aged care system. This demand driven model also promotes the Consumer Directed Care revolving around the aged care sector. According to this model the demand for the aged care service completely relies upon the clients requirements. The consumers who only require HACC or home care may avail it and in contrast the consumers who severe need of high care should be may have access to avail the 24 hours of accommodation and care that is the residential care (King et al.2013). The peoples who are receiving care under the residential aged care facility are older compare to those who are availing the other sorts of aged care services thus exhibiting that the consumer essentially are in need of quality care in conjunction with provision for greater accommodation attributable to their age. However, survey made in 2013-2014 has shown that out of 231,515 people who resorted to residential care the average age was 84.5 years and contrarily the consumers who have availed of HACC and home care have their average age of 80.3 years and 82.3 years respectively. Therefore it can be concluded from this evidences that these peoples who are availing the home care and HACC must be provided with the residential care. The government also funds maximum for the residential care so that best quality of the care can be provide to the peoples who need it. Therefore, the people who have the age above 80 years must be accessed to the residential care. The reason the difference in t he fund sponsored by the government for the residential aged care and the other aged care is huge and in such less amount of the fund it is not possible to provide the person of the age above 80 years the right amount of care. The fund for the residential aged is approximately $9,814 where as the funding for the rest of the aged care facilities are $1,701m and $1,271m (Gao et al. 2014). Australian Aged care work force A significant employment in the Australian economy is contributed by the aged care sector which employs professionals belonging to diverse occupational backgrounds. These employments includes direct care jobs like the nurse, health professionals and the care workers as well as other jobs or the indirect care jobs like the jobs of the administrative positions and management, pastoral care and the ancillary care. Approximtely 70 percent of the jobs of the aged care population comprise of jobs relevant to direct care. However, in the timeframe of 2007 to 2012, changes took place pertaining to the composition of the people engaged in direct care for both the cases of home and residential aged care sectors. The aged care sector is growing day by day the total working force in the year 2007 was approximately 262,000 workers which have reached an extension of 352,000 in the year 2012. This represents a growth rate of 34 percent in the size of the aged care workforce in just a time period of five years (Willetts et al. 2016). Out of the total workforce of the aged care, more than half of the aged care workers are involved for the purpose of care giving procedure in the residential care segment of the aged care sector. According to the survey of the year 2012 the number of worker in the residential section of the aged care is around 202,000 workers and the other segments of the aged care like the HACC and the home care have very less number of the workers. The total work force of both home care and the HACC is altogether 150,000 according to the survey of year 2012 (Britt et al. 2013). Though, the growth of the workforce is very significantly increased to a higher stage in just a time period of five year. This reflects that there is an increasing preference among the consumers of the aged care sectors. The direct care like the residential care work force has to perform all the demanding personal care of the consumers. However the work force of the aged care sector is not evenly distributed. Majority of the working population is involved in the residential aged care sector , though it is necessary that the residential aged care must have a good work force but the work force of the HACC and the home care should also be increased as it is too less. Skill requirements The qualification of the aged care work force is increasing day by day particularly the workers who deal with the direct care roles. The survey showed that in the year 2007, 80 percent of the work force had post-secondary school qualification which has been increased to 87 percent in the year 2012. Among this workforce the maximum amount of the work force is required for the residential aged care facilities. However it is seen in recent times that there is shortage of skills among the workers who deal with the direct care occupations and it is observed mainly in the case of the residential aged care facilities (McLachlan, 2013). The shortage in the residential aged care facilities is mainly the skills shortage among the registered nurses which over common in over 62 percent of the total number of the registered nurse working in the work force of the aged care facilities. The shortage is mainly traced in the remote areas. More over the places that are situated in a very remote location suffers from severe shortage of the skills and other facilities. This situation reflects the limited amount of the residential care services. The reason behind this the low labour demands for the higher type of care roles that is provided by the registered nurses is mainly divided into three categories. These are: (1) lack of the specialist knowledge, (2) recruitment of the nurses and the health care officials is very slow and the (3) geographic location of the place where the facilities have to be provided. The survey reports also gives the evidences that there are some areas where there is a requirement of the training to be given to the nurses and the health care professional. The areas includes: (1) Palliative care, (3) wound management and (3) dementia training. The survey made in the year 2012 exhibits that on an average the skill shortage in the home care and the HACC is much more than the residential sector. The shortage of the skills workforce is reported in the home care and in the HACC is also seen very prominent both in the metropolitan and also in the remote areas. On the other hand the shortage of the registered in the residential sector is more common and applicable to the regional zones only. Changing of the preferences of the consumers According to Wang 2013, any type of the industry the preferences of the consumers is a very important thing to be taken in to consideration. The consumer preference increases with the increase in the demand and the number of the consumers. The consumer preferences also determine the type of the products and also the type of the care. In the case of the aged care industry also the preferences of the consumers determines the types of the aged care services to be provided. The preferences of the consumers of the aged care industries includes firstly the consumers prefer to be ages at the home, the second issue of the preference is the consumers who move into the aged care service facilities aspect to get service which is more personalized and lastly the baby boomers who are entering the aged care service generally demand a more complex and higher level of care. The government has shown strong response to these types of preferences by the process of changing the provision of the aged car e service and the funding procedure. Aged care industry in the subcontinent countries The care home industries in the sub-continent regions are changing rapidly due to the increased number of aged individuals. In the densely and over populated countries like India and China, it is essential to develop the aged care industry as it is important to provide the care for the growing population. However compared to that of the aged care industry in Australia the industry has not improved significantly in the sub continental countries. Moreover, as the culture and the life style of the people of Australia is quite different from that of sub-continent regions, it is not possible to have the same infrastructure in both the regions. However, with the rise of the GDP rate, it is possible to have better infrastructure in the future. Conclusion This report show that the aged care industry is growing with the time and the consumer are trying to express their preferences for the aged care industry and also the government is trying to incorporate the changes that are required to provide better service to the consumers. However there are some drawbacks still present in the industry which includes the shortage of the skills in the regional outlets present in the remote areas also there is a lack of the registered nurses within the residential aged care setting. 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