Dressing Dressing Response options • Without help • With some help • Completely unable Business rules Mandatory. Select one option. Assessment Home Support Assessment Comprehensive Assessment Pre-population Add in Support Plan Assessment Summary Help text Whether the client can dress themselves. Consider cognitive as well as physical reasons. A client with dementia may be physically able to dress, but may require prompting to do so, or a carer may also need to physically assist a client who is unable to ‘sequence’ their dressing tasks. Considerations for best practice Context: This refers to whether the client can dress themselves. Consider/record: Without help: The client is able to choose their clothing and is appropriately dressed, is able to do up their own buttons, zips, laces and/or put on their shoes/socks/stockings etc. With some help: The client is able to dress with some assistance and/or prompting. This may include assistance to choose clothing, or to do up their own buttons, zips, laces and/or put on their shoes/socks/stockings etc. Completely unable: The client is completely unable to dress themselves. Prompts/observations: Are you able to choose your own clothing? How do you decide to choose what to wear? Do you have any difficulties in dressing or undressing (including dressing/undressing to use the toilet)? Do you have any difficulties doing up buttons, zips, bra, tying shoelaces? Do you have difficulty putting on or taking off shoes, socks, stockings etc.? Is the client dressed in appropriate clothing? Does the outfit match? Are buttons, zips, shoelaces done up appropriately? Does their appearance validate what they have told you? Eating Eating
Ask the client to show you medication and to demonstrate how they use their dosette box/blister pack if present. if the client is clear about their medication schedule. Are there any concerns about medications, side effects or are a high number of medications being taken? Do any of the medications impact on daily activities (e.g. causes lethargy, lack of focus, mobility etc.)? Do pain levels fluctuate throughout the day? How do you manage this? Have been any recent changes in your medication? Does the client self-administer their medication? Does the client receive assistance with medications? If yes, by whom and how often during the day? Is medication prompting required? Does the client use any form of dispenser for medication administration i.e. blister pack or dosette box? Does the client any medications for emergencies? Recommendations: Recommendation/referral to GP for a home/residential Medication Review (an Australian Government-subsidised programme). Sensory concerns Sensory concerns Response options • Yes • No Business rules Mandatory. Select one option. If ‘Yes’, mandatory to select ‘’, ‘’ and/or ‘’. Assessment level Home Support Assessment Comprehensive Assessment Pre-population Add in Support Plan Assessment Summary Help text Whether the client has any concerns or difficulties with their vision, hearing or speech. Multiple responses may be appropriate. Vision Response options • Low vision • Blindness Business rules Conditionally mandatory if ‘’ = Yes. Select one option. Assessment level Home Support Assessment Comprehensive Assessment Pre-population Add in Support Plan Assessment Summary
Medical Domain – Health Conditions Introduction The Health Conditions section relates to the health conditions the client experiences, which have an impact on their activities of daily living and social participation. It seeks information on the health condition(s); their diagnosis status; the impact of health conditions and the support the client is receiving to manage them; and allergies and sensitivities. Health condition Health condition Response options See . Business rules Mandatory to add at least one ‘Health condition’. Ability to add multiple health conditions. Assessment level Home Support Assessment Comprehensive Assessment Pre-population Add in Support Plan Assessment Summary Help text Whether the client has any health conditions, including mental health conditions or disabilities that have an impact on the person’s need for assistance with activities of living and social participation. These can be new or pre-existing conditions. Primary health condition Response options See . Business rules Home Support Assessment: Ability to select one ‘Primary health condition’. Comprehensive Assessment: Mandatory to select one ‘Primary health condition’. Assessment Home Support Assessment Comprehensive Assessment Pre-population Add in Support Plan Assessment Summary Help text The health condition with the greatest impact on the person’s need for assistance with activities of daily living and social participation. Diagnosis status Response options • Client reported • GP confirmed • Hospital confirmed • health practitioner diagnosis Business rules Mandatory per ‘’ selected. Assessment level Home Support Assessment Comprehensive Assessment
Therapy Services; Other Allied Health and Therapy Services; Physiotherapy; Podiatry; Psychologist; Restorative Care Services; Social Work; Speech Pathology. Assistance with Care and Housing – Advocacy – Financial, Legal etc.; Assessment – Referrals etc.; Hoarding and Squalor. Case Management. Centre-based Respite – Centre Based Day Respite; Community Access – Group; Residential Day Respite. Client Care Coordination. Cottage Respite – Overnight Community Respite. Domestic Assistance – General House Cleaning; Linen services; Unaccompanied Shopping (delivered to home). Flexible Respite – Flexible Respite; Host Family Day Respite; Host Family overnight Respite; In-home Day Respite; In-home Overnight Respite; Mobile Respite; Other planned respite. Goods, equipment and assistive technology – Car Modification; Communication aids; Medical care aids; Other goods and equipment; Reading aids; Self-care aids; Support and mobility aids. Home maintenance – Garden Maintenance; Major Home Maintenance and Repairs; Minor Home Maintenance and Repairs. Home modifications. – At Centre; At Home. Multi-Purpose Service – Residential – Shared room + Ensuite; Shared room + no bathroom or Ensuite; Shared room + shared Bathroom; Single room + Ensuite; Single room + no bathroom or Ensuite; Single room + shared Bathroom. National ATSI Aged Care Program. Nursing. Other Food Services – Food Advice, Lessons, Training, Food Safety; Food Preparation in the Home. Personal Care – Assistance with client self-administration of medicine; Assistance with Self-Care. Social Support Group. Social Support Individual – Accompanied Activities e.g. Shopping; Telephone/Web Contact; Visiting. Specialised Support Services – Client Advocacy; Continence Advisory Services; Dementia Advisory Services; Hearing Services; Other support services; Vision Services. Transport – Direct (driver is volunteer or worker); Indirect (through vouchers or subsidies). Business See Assessor Portal/myAssessor app.
1305 Other soft tissue/muscle disorders (includes rheumatism, lupus, polymyalgia rheumatica) 1306 Osteoporosis 1307 Osteoarthritis 1308 Gout 1399 Other disorders of the musculoskeletal system & connective tissue n.o.s or n.e.c (includes osteomyelitis) Diseases of the genitourinary system 1401 Kidney & urinary system (bladder) disorders (includes nephritis renal failure, cystitis; excludes urinary tract infection & incontinence) 1402 Urinary tract infection 1403 Stress/urinary incontinence (includes stress, overflow, reflex & urge incontinence) 1404 Urinary diversion (ileal conduit), urostomy 1499 Other diseases of the genitourinary system n.o.s or n.e.c (includes prostate, breast and menopause disorders, vaginal prolapse, benign prostatic hypertrophy) Congenital malformations, deformations & chromosomal abnormalities 1501 Spina bifida 1502 Deformities of joints/limbs—congenital 1503 Down’s syndrome 1504 Other chromosomal abnormalities 1505 Congenital brain damage/malformation 1599 congenital malformations & deformations n.o.s or n.e.c Injury, poisoning & certain other consequences of external causes 1601 Injuries to the head (includes injuries to ear, eye, face, jaw, acquired brain damage) 1602 Injuries to arm/hand/shoulder (includes, dislocations, sprains & strains) 1603 Injuries to leg/knee/foot/ankle/hip (includes dislocations, sprains & strains) 1604 Amputation of the 1605 Amputation of toe/ankle/foot/leg—traumatic 1606 Fracture of neck (includes cervical & vertebra) 1607 Fracture of rib(s), sternum & thoracic spine (includes thoracic spine & vertebra) 1608 Fracture of lumbar & pelvis (includes lumbar vertebra, sacrum, coccyx, sacrum) 1609 Fracture of shoulder, upper arm & forearm (includes clavicle, scapula, humerus, radius, ulna) 1610 Fracture at wrist & hand level