Aged Care Assessment Process

The ACAT Assessment Process We chose to undertake the ACAT assessment as one of the learning task because, most of us in the group do not know or understand what an ACAT assessment is. For me, as I am doing my placement in an aged care community centre, I learned that it is the most fundamental and important step or a starting point for older people to access government-subsidized aged care services (myagedcare, 2015) which helps to determine the advice, information and assistance that may be available to them (Carers Victoria, 2006). Moreover, assessment is the cornerstone of a well targeted, responsive and sustainable aged care service system (National Aged Care Alliance, 2014).Therefore, if we want to work with older
In Queensland, the ACAT members are usually social workers, doctors or nurses attached to a hospital. Following any emergency treatment and during the recovery period of the client, they are the first to evaluate the ongoing aged care needs of elderly people. They will also offer recommendations for the best type of care or services needed for their particular circumstances at that time (Brisbane Aged Care Financial Advisers, 2015).

ACAT assessments are provided free of charge and any person can request an ACAT assessment for frail older adults. Referral from medical professional or GP are not necessary. People will require an approval from ACAT assessment if they have complex aged care needs and desire to:
• Access aged care services through any level of Home Care Package (high or low), to assist people to remain at home.
• Receive transition care . (Government of Western Australia,
However, aged care workers have mandatory reporting about suspected abuse, so the social worker will need to find out if his/her work in the hospital is also covered by this mandate otherwise they will need to assess whether or not to make a report.
-On the other hand the social worker can also make a referral for Sadie to a Senior Legal And Support Services which can assist Sadie in planning to support/protect herself from any further abusive incidents, e.g. how can Sadie best protect Bert and her savings if their children ask for more money?

Family issues- Elder abuse/ Carer Abuse
-To increase engagement with the family/children/neighbor and work to strengthen the existing social support. Families have viable, complex and supportive exchange and caregiving pattern. Whenever one member of a family is in trouble, all are in trouble. Therefore, the practitioner should assess and treat the family as an organisational structure that is a functioning whole within a societal context and thus system theory is an integrating tool that is essential to accomplish this end (Greene,