1. and Flinders CCSM Training
Regional Assessment Service
and Flinders CCSM Training
Grant Edwards
Manager Agedcare Alternatives
Regional Assessment service

2. The Older Person’s Story
The Regional Assessment Services are part of the My Aged Care Gateway
It assesses clients for entry to the Commonwealth Home Support Program.
It does this by conducting a Home Support (Complex) Assessment.
This assessment is designed to gather and tell the older person’s story.
That story is recorded in The National Screening and Assessment Form.
It is not a clinical assessment.

3. The Basics The Home Support Assessment is: Consumer directed
Wellness focused
Offers opportunities to “reable” or restore function.
All our HAS’s have undertaken Flinders CCM training.
The background of many HSA is working in the person centred space.
So HSA can be challenged in the new paradigm and may feel their professional knowledge is less valued.
“Wellness” simply put is that the client will and wants to improve from their current situation.
How do we facilitate this in a consumer directed way?

4. Flinders Comparison and HSA
Home Support Assessment
Partners in Health
Contact Centre Screening
Cue And Response Interview
National Screening and Assessment Form
Cue and Response Discussion
Problems Statement
Concerns
Goal Statement
Goals
Care Plan
Support Plan
There are strong similarities in the make up of the My Aged Care Assessment Process and the Flinders model.
The NSAF has 12 domains:
Reason for Assessment
Current Support
Carer
Social Connections
Health Conditions
Health
Lifestyle
Memory and behaviour
Psychosocial
Emotional
Function
Home safety
Complexity Indicators

5. Benefits of CCSM training for HSA’s
Strengthens the understanding that the client is an expert in their own life Understands social determinates of health Identifies barriers Uses open ended questions Funnel technique
The Flinders training supports and strengthens our HSA skills and knowledge in the following areas.

6. Benefits of CCSM training for HSA’s
Discusses the outcome of the assessment and supports options Motivation Problem solving Develops concern statements (Problem statements) Develops SMART goal statements
Writing the concerns as a three part problem statement opens increases the options available to the client as a response.
Critically it is about:
having an open discussion with the client about the assessment,
deciding together want issues the client is willing to address at this time
review the options that are available for them to address their issues
developing a plan that has both service responses and client actions

7. Thank You