The Wicking Teaching Aged Care Facilities Prototype Project
The previous decade witnessed a progressive ageing of the resident population in aged care facilities with an associated increase in dependency. For now, at least, and for the foreseeable future, this change is inexorable and progressive. Worryingly, the increasing demand for skilled care to meet higher levels of resident dependency has been accompanied by a progressive de-skilling of the aged care workforce. This is compounded by the fact that the aged care environment does not appear to offer strong career pathways for qualified staff, making recruitment and retention a significant problem.
To build capacity of aged care facilities to respond to a complex and changing future, and at the same time to recruit and retain a new generation of highly skilled practitioners, this program aims to prototype teaching aged care facilities in two facilities in Tasmania. The project involves two concurrent processes:
- Evaluation of organisational culture and leadership capability, and design of systems and processes to support engagement; and
- Implementation of a program of quality clinical aged care placements for a range of health care students, comprising medical, nursing and paramedic students.
| Date started | 2011 |
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