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The Australian Government Department of Health will assess your income and assets to work out how much financial help you will get for a place in a residential aged care home...
There are laws that set out how healthcare professionals can collect and store your health information and when they are allowed to share it...
The Transition Care Program provides care through tailored support packages, while the Home and Community Care (HACC) Program provides a range of basic maintenance and support services...
If you are unhappy with the way a disability service has treated you, you have the right to complain and to have your concerns addressed...
As circumstances change it is important to continually assess what services and home assistance will be most helpful...
If you are dissatisfied with a mental health treatment or service, you have the right to make a complaint and have your concerns addressed...
You can appoint someone to be your medical power of attorney, also known as ‘enduring power of attorney (medical treatment)’, to make medical decisions on your behalf when, in certain circumstances...
When someone dies, it will help you to have a written plan of what you need to do including who you need to contact...
An emergency care plan is a set of instructions about caring for someone in the event that you are not able to...
You have rights when seeking medical care, including a right to comment on your care, and to have your concerns addressed...