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DHF Annual Report 2009 - NT Health Digital Library - Northern ...

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Community Support Services for Frail Aged People andPeople with a DisabilityAged and Disability Services maximise community participation and independence of seniorTerritorians, people across the lifespan with disabilities, people who care for the frail agedand people with a disability, including providing pensioner concessions to eligible clients.Services are provided to people in their homes and in the community.The Aged and Disability Program works in partnership with clients, non-government serviceproviders, advocacy groups, Australian Government and <strong>Northern</strong> Territory Governmentdepartments and local government, to improve the quality of life for people with disabilityincluding the frail aged, and their carers.2008-09Actual<strong>2009</strong>-10Budget<strong>2009</strong>-10RevisedBudget<strong>2009</strong>-10ActualOutputOutputcost($’000) 69 566 66 166 72 215 75 004Performance Measure2008-09Actual<strong>2009</strong>-10Estimate<strong>2009</strong>-10Actual2010-11EstimateQuantitySupported accommodation places 155 155 155 155Clients accessing professional support 7 296 6500 6 114 6 900services 1Clients accessing community support 4 650 5 000 5567 5 000services 2Occasions clients access professionalsupport services 3 52 568 62 170 62 414 63 000TimelinessAged Care Assessment Team clientsreceiving timely intervention inaccordance with priority at referral 4 82% 84% 86% 80%1 Professional support services include Adult and Disability teams, Aged Care Assessment Program, Children'sDevelopment Team, Community Adult <strong>Health</strong> Team, TIME Scheme, Transitional Care Unit, Local AreaCoordination and SEAT Service. The estimate for clients accessing professional support services for 2010-11 isless than the actual for 2008-09. This is primarily due to aggregating of the quarterly point of time data to anappropriate estimate. In addition, data validation activities are ongoing to include specialist adult health servicesand other therapy services in this measure. This work has not been completed, making estimation more complIt is anticipated that this issue will be resolved for the 2011-12 estimate.2 Community support services include services funded through the Commonwealth State/Territory DisabilityAgreement (CSTDA) and the Home and Community Care (HACC) Program provided by non-governmentorganisations. Due to data issues the actual figure for <strong>2009</strong>-10 has not been able to be verified.3 The growth in occasions of clients accessing professional support services in 2010-11 reflects the best practiceapproach to assessment and support planning being undertaken and increased complexity of clients requiringhigher levels of intervention.4 The <strong>2009</strong>-10 actual timeliness improved slightly based on a one-off blitz in the hospital setting. Timeliness willreduce in 2010-11 given projected increase in client numbers.142Department <strong>Health</strong> and Families

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