Ageing, end-of-life care, and the National Disability Insurance Scheme: What can we learn from overseas?

Title
Ageing, end-of-life care, and the National Disability Insurance Scheme: What can we learn from overseas?
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Wark, Stuart
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5366-1860
Email: stuart.wark@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:swark5
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Informa Healthcare
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.3109/13668250.2014.969201
UNE publication id
une:16774
Abstract
The author of this conceptual article was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel to the United States, Ireland, and United Kingdom to meet with researchers, practitioners, and community agencies and review how support for people with intellectual disability is provided. A specific focus was upon provision of care for individuals who were either ageing or requiring palliative care. The project took place from June to August 2013 and involved face-to-face interviews and site visits with key academics, government representatives, and community providers in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, New Jersey, Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, and Stoke-on-Trent. A priority was placed upon examining how the key features of leading practice models could be implemented within the Australian environment featuring a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). On the basis of the observations of practice, key points are discussed regarding the potential for improvements to the support of people with intellectual disability within the Australian context of the NDIS.
Link
Citation
Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 40(1), p. 92-98
ISSN
1469-9532
1366-8250
Start page
92
End page
98

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