This audit assessed whether Victorians with a terminal illness have access to high‑quality palliative care that is timely, coordinated, and responsive to their needs and wishes. Summary Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of people with terminal illnesses by managing pain and distressing symptoms. With the population ageing and the need for...

There is growing concern in the child welfare sector with the quality of care being provided through Residential Care out-of-home care services. In Victoria, the recommended policy direction is to move away from standard Residential Care as much as possible (Auditor-General Victoria, 2014), largely because it is both expensive and largely seen as ineffective, or...

This research has been designed to test, document and apply standard measures for the determination of client outcomes in case managed community care for older people.

This report is the outcome of a project undertaken for the Australian government's Department of Health and Ageing on the consistency and comparability of dependency information across three aged and community care programs: Home and Community Care, Aged Care Assessment Program and Community Aged Care Packages.