COMMUNITY CARE OF THE AGED A Preventive Health Perspective

Abstract

This paper suggests a model for the analysis and planning of aged care services from 3 preventive health perspective. The model considers the aged person's needs, factors affecting how these needs will be met, service provisionl and the consequences to the aged individual and society of this provision. Use of this model to analyse present services points to the need for an ‘Office of the Aged’ at Commonwealth government level to take responsibility for need determination, goal setting, organisation and evaluation of services.