12/6/18 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. End of Life Directions for Aged Care Why is ELDAC needed? Overview Period of funding: 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2020 Ageing population • Consortium Partners: ACSA, AHHA, CareSearch (FU), CHA, LASA, PCA, QUT, UTS Older Australians with complex and diverse needs • Co-Lead: FU, QUT, UTS with QUT as administering organisation Increased demand on health and social systems • Governance: Project Operations Group, Partnership Group, National Reference Workforce and providers are diverse and require support • Group, External Evaluator Knowledge and experience of care providers around palliative care and • Four integrated work streams: advance care planning needs to be improved 1. Capacity building resources and advisory services 2. Technology innovations Is the end of life experience of older Australians what we would want it to be? 3. Policy roundtables 4. Service and sector development and advisory services Stream 1: Capacity Building Resources (FU Led) Stream 1: The ELDAC Helpline • Brand and Communications • Environmental scan to inform development of Information and Advisory Services resources ELDAC website at www.eldac.com.au • including Information and Services Web analytics 31 st March – Nov 2018 • Total visitors - 17,290 • Provides: Total page views – 240,496 • Total popup user data collected – Website navigation • • 1,360 Total newsletter subscribers – 1,692 • 1
12/6/18 Stream 1: 5 Toolkits Residential and Home Care Toolkits (UTS Led) Collection of evidence-based information, resources and tools • 3 clinical • Primary Care Toolkit (AHHA Led) Palliative Care Framework Legal Toolkit (QUT Led) Working Together Toolkit (QUT Led) Provides practical information about • end of life law for the aged care sector and GPs. • Can help you know the law, reduce legal risk, and deliver high quality care. • Includes factsheets and mythbusters on common legal issues in aged care. Contains case studies which show how • the law applies in aged care practice. 2
12/6/18 Stream 2: Technology Innovations (FU Led) Stream 3: Policy Roundtables (PCA Led) Embedded technology application (ELDAC Dashboard) Prepare policy briefs which include synthesised information to inform • addressing end-of-life quality indicators decision-makers about key policy and planning issues in palliative care and advance care planning in aged care. Co-design approach • Each issue will involve a facilitated roundtable (by invitation only) of relevant • Prototype development • stakeholders, including aged care and palliative care workers, peak Trial application with three IT providers: organisations, allied health professionals, nurses, general practitioners and • Evaluation of use and utility consumer representatives Development of implementation strategy Roundtables completed: • • Evaluation • April 2018, Aged Care Workforce 1. August 2018, Funding in Residential Care 2. October 2018, Funding in Community Aged Care Exploring and embedding end of life care in systems for 3. practice support and management reporting Stream 4: Service and Sector Development (QUT Led) Stream 4: Preliminary outcomes 61 aged care services and 48 organisations engaged • ELDAC facilitators work with aged care services in partnering with specialist 16 aged care services enrolled, further 6 sites given verbal commitment palliative care services, primary care, Primary Health Networks and other • service providers, to enhance palliative care and advance care planning Further 19 aged care services and “other” contacts in scoping phase • outcomes. Local service networks mapped for palliative care and advance care planning capacity. Supported by evidence-based “Working Together” toolkit and other ELDAC toolkits. Striving to embed partnership processes and structures which enhance palliative care and advance care planning outcomes for aged care recipients. Finding out more Webpage: www.eldac.com.au Visit our News and Updates page to find our latest blogs, newsletters and to sign up for newsletters Follow us on twitter @EL ELDAC_age ged ca care Email us if you would like to be involved in any aspect of ELDAC EL ELDAC.Proj oject@flinders.edu.au 3
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