2024 Voluntary Assisted Dying Convention Report (PDF) Original Source: Go Gentle Australia Website
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Contemporary, industrial healthcare systems have understandably been designed to be sharply focused on the treatment of human illness, with the domination of incentives focused on activity (e.g. fee-for-service medicine; activity-based funding) have been suggested as a major contributor to this orientation. While this has encouraged a form of innovation that has driven the unprecedented expansion of population lifespan, more recent decades have failed to deliver a concomitant dividend in healthspan. In Australia, the AIHW 2023 Burden of Disease Report
Little children cannot speak up for themselves, advocate for their healthcare, protect themselves against abuse or lobby for funding for basic services—in response, Australians have developed a framework of laws and policies that protect children and their rights. We strictly enforce these through various measures, such as the protection through “Working with Children Check (WWCC)” Senior Australians, about half of them suffering from cognitive decline, have limited ability to speak up for themselves, advocate for their healthcare, protect themselves against
The Hospital Reform Group, an independent group of senior NSW Health Clinicians, Health Academics and Community representatives formed in 2004, has compiled the following submission to the Special Commission of Inquiry into matters concerning the delivery of acute care services in public hospitals in New South Wales (The Garling Inquiry). The submission addresses the first term of reference of the commission. Executive Summary In this submission, the Hospital Reform Group argues that there are three fundamental, systemic
A Generalist Model of Community Health and Aged Care (Broe, 2004) Community Health and Aged Care Program Randwick-Botany Community and Prince of Wales Hospital BACKGROUND Over the past 25 to 35 years the basic elements of a local community health system, for older people with chronic disease and disability, have been developed in urban and rural NSW, and across Australia, with the collaboration of several initiatives: Firstly, the development of Community Health or Hospital based Aged Care