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Recognising & supporting care relationships

The Department of Human Services policy framework, Recognising and supporting care relationships, identifies three overarching principles in focusing on care relationships.

These are:

• recognition and respect
• supporting care relationships
• participation.

To support the department’s policy framework, program areas have developed action plans that acknowledge and address the important elements of care relationships.

The purpose of Recognising and supporting care relationships for older Victorians Action Plan 2006–2009 is to improve recognition of, and support for, care relationships for older Victorians through policy and service development and delivery.

This plan identifies actions to support care relationships for older people and their unpaid carers:

• within current programs and services, including making changes to improve what program areas already do
• through new initiatives.

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Recognising and supporting care relationships for older Victorians (Aged Care) (206kb, pdf)

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