Resources

Shorter version of the 42-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scales that was designed to measure three related negative emotional states of depression, anxiety and tension/stress.

Through questions, this template from the Department of Health and Aged Care aims to develop a greater understanding of the effectiveness of service delivery techniques in shifting towards wellness and reablement by considering what worked well, if there were barriers, what they were, and what could be done differently to support clients. 

This document from the Department of Health and Aged Care outlines the concept of wellness and reablement for Commonwealth Home Support Programme support workers. 

This resource from the Department of Health and Aged Care outlines a whole-of-person approach across three key areas of wellness: mind, body, and social connectedness. 

This tool from the Department of Health and Aged Care shows you the many different ways reablement practices and techniques can be introduced in everyday service delivery situations.

This tool from The Department of Health and Aged Care is designed to help staff to have conversations with clients and their families/carers about wellness and reablement. It provides conversational tips for communicating the approach and its benefits.

This template from the Department of Health and Aged Care steps out guidance on how to incrementally review, plan and deploy improvements within your Commonwealth Home Support Programme organisation.

This online forum is focused on supporting you and your colleagues to share ideas, best practice and practical examples to embed wellness and reablement into your everyday service delivery practices.

This tool from the Department of Health and Aged Care provides a process to systematically identify and capture change activities through a change management template and provides examples to help get started.

If you are out in public, you may need to let other people (for example the bus driver, cafe staff or receptionist) know that you, or the person you support, has dementia. This card from Forward with Dementia discretely alerts people that you may require their help and support.