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Meals on Wheels Journey...

Home and Community Care 1973-2014

Fern Hazeldean Coordinator Community Services

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• 1954: The inception of Meals on Wheels in Western

Australia

• 1985: The inception of the Home and Community Care

Program in Western Australia

• 1973: Commencement of Meals on Wheels with the City
• f Belmont
• 1994: Commencement of the Home and Community Care

Program with the City of Belmont

The journey from the start...

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• 2004 - Introduction of the HACC Needs Identification (HNI) instrument for

screening and identifying the generic needs for Service Users in the Home and Community Care (HACC) program of Western Australia

• 2005 - Introduction of the collection of the HACC minimum data set (MDS) for the

National Data Repository (NDR)

• 2006 - In March 2006, the WA HACC program adopted the Wellness Approach as its

policy position for the future delivery of HACC services across the state

• 2009 - The introduction of the Western Australian Assessment Framework (WAAF),

phase one

• 2011 - The implementation of the Western Australian Assessment Framework

(WAAF), phase two

• Regional Assessment Team:

City of Canning, Silver Chain

The journey continues...

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• Currently, other COB meal options that service users have

available: – Domestic Assistance (DA) – staff preparing meals in service users homes as service user is unable to prepare for themselves - $8 per hour – Other Food Services (OFS) – staff assist service users with: menu planning, shopping and meal preparation with service users involvement - $8 per hour – Social Support (SS) – staff accompany service users to access Harman Park Community Centre for a hot meal or another food venue of their choice - $8 per hour

How service users now receive meals...

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– Food Cents - staff and volunteers assist service users to plan nutritional menus within a budget for one or two people, cook the meal in a small group and eat together to improve socialisation - $5 per session – Meals at Harman Park – service users can independently

• r with support access the Centre for a hot 3 course meal,

5 days per week - $8 per meal – Meals on Wheels (MOW) – service users receive frozen 3 course meals delivered to them directly once per week by volunteers - $9 per meal

How service users now receive meals...

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• Current model:
• a three course meal - $9
• New model options:
• Option A – two course meal - $5.98
• Option B – three course meal - $7.11

Cost of meals to service users...

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• Approximate numbers of service users receiving a meal per week

(August 2014): – Domestic Assistance – 25 – Other Food Services – 10 – Social Support – 52 – Food Cents – 7 – Meals at Harman Park – 30 – Meals on Wheels - 22 – *Centre Based activities – 165 (not included in reportable HACC statistics, as focus not on meal but activities, which includes 3 course meal)

• Total approximate number of HACC eligible COB residents receiving

a meal throughout the week of 18-22 August 2014 = 311

Current service users receiving meals...

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• Manager Community Development and HACC staff met with

MOW Volunteers to discuss changes to MOW deliveries, service user needs and MOW and additional volunteering

• ptions on:
• Thursday 24th July 2014
• Tuesday 19th August 2014
• Those who were not able to attend either meeting received

letters with an update on changes and MOW and additional volunteer opportunities at the City

Update on MOW Volunteers...

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• Feedback was predominantly positive with the majority of

volunteers wishing to continue with MOW deliveries, as well as considering other volunteer opportunities at the City

• All volunteers received a summary of all possible volunteer

places/ activities/ opportunities within the City and are currently reviewing and responding with their preferred

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Update on MOW Volunteers...

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Questions or comments welcomed 

Thank you!

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