Aged Care and Rehabilitation Clinical Stream

The SESLHD Aged Care and Rehabilitation Stream provides leadership and direction on matters related to Aged Care and Rehabilitation to ensure excellence in care delivery and equitable access.

Specialties within Aged Care and Rehabilitation Clinical Stream

Geriatric medicine	Extended care	Rehabilitation
Sub-acute care	Community health	Hospital in the home (HITH)
Post-acute care	Spinal rehab	Spinal medicine

Our Priorities

To provide leadership and direction in the development, implementation and evaluation of the Aged Care & Rehabilitation Clinical Services Plan and service gaps.
To provide opportunity for discussion, advice and comment to the District Executive and Ministry of Health on relevant issues related to the stream.
To provide input and direction into the development of relevant District-wide procedures and models of care.
To facilitate communication of Federal, State and District initiatives related to the stream.
To promote education and research into relevant areas and facilitate the sharing of service experience.

Our Focus Priorities for 2024/25

Advance Care Planning
- Normalise routine use of end of life/ACP tools; support staff to effectively undertake conversations; ensure access to the documentation.
- Strategy: implementation of solutions identified from clinical re-design project undertaken in collaboration with Palliative Care and Clinical Governance in 2023.
Shared care models
- Aged care with peri-operative and post-operative management of the older person; and
- Rehabilitation with cancer survivorship; stroke; and chronic disease
Frailty pathway
- District approach, link existing services and gap analysis