Indigenous people have a higher incidence of illness and higher mortality rate than other Australians, therefore regular health checks are a priority to help to reduce and prevent serious illness by early detection and treatment.

The Department of Health and Ageing is set to take full responsibility for HACC funding from July 2012. So what exactly will this mean for HACC programs and your clients? Also, Statewide the ACAI uptake has doubled - the number of Allied Health Services provided to aged care residents in Residential Aged Care Facilities has doubled in this last financial year compared to the previous year.

A number of referral and services available in the innerwest.

Advance Care Planning: GPs to give insights on how it can work.

Early diagnosis and detection of dementia is becoming increasingly important with our ageing population. The General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG) – This is specifically developed for the use in the primary care setting. The GPCOG consists of both a cognitive test of the patient and an informal interview to increase the predictive power. Both parts can be scored separately, together or sequentially.

Aged Care Access Initiative (ACAI) funding updates from DoHA, and changes to the Aged Care Triage (ACT).