COTA has been appointed to the Brighton Health Campus Project Steering Committee to provide direction and leadership for the Brighton Health Campus Project in developing a vision, service profile, workforce considerations and partnership opportunities for the Brighton Campus.
Research for the project identified that older men especially those who have worked in rural industries don’t access aged care services. In response to this older men’s groups are part of the target for the project.
The small rural community of Bell at the foothills of the Bunya Mountains have set up a community managed home care service using self-managed home care packages and employing local people to deliver services.