Care Partnerships Australia

A service for people living with a diagnosis of dementia or cognitive impairment and their carers.
 
Care Partnerships Australia

Care Partnerships Australia

A service for people living with a diagnosis of dementia or cognitive impairment and their carers.

Care Partnership Australia Pty Ltd

Care Partnerships Australia believe that every person should live with dignity as they age. Our aged care services aim to maximise the human rights and choices for people living with dementia and cognitive decline. We deliver aged care services with compassion and integrity.

We offer a private, fee for service aged care consultancy to help you or your loved ones to live well as you age. We offer an in-home consultation that provides information about how to live well with dementia. We create an assessment and care plan, and a communication guide that helps you to speak to and understand your loved one when communication is difficult after a diagnosis of dementia.

Michelle Harris-Allsop, Founder: Advance care planning is an approach which plans to improve the quality of life of my clients and their families even when they are facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness or a disability like a type of dementia.

What the service provides

The Client

  • Community Palliative Dementia Care support provided by a Nurse and Allied Health
  • The service holistically addresses symptom management issues utilising a relationship centred approach
  • Recognise increased care requirements, utilising optimal home care package use
  • Advance Care Planning
  • Aim to reduce hospital admission/ Length of stay
  • Identification of deteriorating condition

The Carer

  • Identify carer strain and provide support
  • Promote and support confidence and capability
  • Optimise understanding through education and advance care planning
  • Communication the lynchpin
  • Identify deteriorating condition, support and referral to medical specialist
  • Bereavement follow-up based on assessed risk of the bereaved and length of engagement with the service.
  • Provide dementia and advance care planning resources

The Hospital and Community

  • Collaborating with community services to ensure best person-centred care through the appropriate and efficient use of resources
  • General Practitioner
  • Care package provider
  • Medical specialists- Geriatricians,
  • Focus on the Person – provides information on the views, needs and wishes of the client to support optimal informed care
  • Aim to reduce hospital re-admissions, length of stay, facilitation of advance care planning discussions/ Goals of patient care, reduce carer strain- increased understanding

Testimonial

I have been fortunate to know Michelle for the past 16 years. Her standard of professionalism is exceptional. Michelle’s knowledge and practical application of person-centred care practices, and in particular cognitive decline management, is outstanding. Her ability to listen and then relate with empathy to the care recipient and their …

John Frame – Grandton

InteliCare has been working with Michelle to improve our technology for the aged care industry. Her ability to provide the perspective and clinical depth of knowledge from a professional health worker’s standpoint has been invaluable. It enables us to make a leap we could not otherwise achieve.

InteliCare – Jason Waller, Chief Executive Officer

Having known Michelle, over the years, for her drive, passion and skill in supporting people with dementia and their Carers, Perth Care + Companion Company continue to utilise Michelle’s skill in expertise and empathetic approach to support both our clients and staff. Michelle has always very practical and often simple …

Carole & Julie, Directors Perth Care + Companion Company (PCCC)

Michelle is a Registered Nurse- Dementia Consultant at Care Partnerships Australia in Western Australia. She worked within the aged and community care sector since 2003, and her achievements promoting culture change for people living with dementia were recognised as an award finalist in the Western Australian Nursing and Midwifery Awards …

Rosemary – Perth, WA