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End of Life Directions for Aged Care What is ELDAC?
End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC) is a project funded by the Australian Government Department of Health to support quality care at the end of life. It aims to make the existing evidence and resources more easily accessible and used. There are four objectives:
- Provide specialist palliative care and advance care planning advice to aged care providers
and GPs providing health care for recipients of aged care services;
- Improve linkages between aged care services and palliative care services;
- Improve the palliative care skills and advance care planning expertise of aged care service
staff and GPs providing health care for recipients of aged care services; and
- Improve the quality of care for aged care recipients, prevent unnecessary hospital
admissions and shorten hospital stays.
- Ageing population
- Older Australians with complex and diverse needs
- Increased demand on health and social systems
- Workforce and providers are diverse and require support
- Knowledge and experience of care providers around palliative care and
advance care planning needs to be improved Is the end of life experience of older Australians what we would want it to be?
Why is ELDAC needed?
Period of funding: 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2020 Consortium Partners: ACSA, AHHA, CareSearch (FU), CHA, LASA, PCA, QUT, UTS Co-Lead: FU, QUT, UTS with QUT as administering organisation Governance: Project Operations Group, Partnership Group, National Reference Group, External Evaluator Four integrated work streams:
- 1. Capacity building resources and advisory services
- 2. Technology innovations
- 3. Policy roundtables
- 4. Service and sector development and
advisory services
Overview
- ELDAC website at www.eldac.com.au
including Information and Services
- Web analytics 31st March – Nov 2018
- Total visitors - 17,290
- Total page views – 240,496
- Total popup user data collected –
1,360
- Total newsletter subscribers – 1,692
Stream 1: Capacity Building Resources (FU Led)
- Brand and Communications
- Environmental scan to inform development of Information and Advisory Services
resources
Stream 1: The ELDAC Helpline
Provides:
- Website navigation