Will 'Support at Home' Deliver What Older People Want?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This paper reviews Australia's aged care Home Care Package program to assess the ability of its replacement, the Support at Home program, to deliver on its stated principles of independence, autonomy, empowerment and freedom of choice for older people. The program is reviewed from the perspective of older people who wanted maximum independence and control over their support packages.

Methods

The findings from a qualitative study of the Home Care Package program in 2023-2024 involving 30 participants are used as a lens to review the Support at Home program. The two programs are sufficiently similar that findings based on the earlier program are relevant to the latter one. Semi-structured online interviews were conducted with older people who self-managed, their fam

SUBMITTER: Laragy C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12808851 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature