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Venue Assessment Tool

 

This resource is designed to assess venues and business premises to help make them more dementia assessable. This work is based on the E.A.T (Environmental Assessment Tool) available from Dementia Training Australia

The resource is in two parts – an assessment guide providing background knowledge and ideas of how you may implement as successful assessment of a venue and a separate workbook you can use to carry out the assessment. 

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NDIS more than teething problems

Let’s be honest, there’s more wrong with the NDIS than just ‘teething problems’
File 20171024 30613 2x0v49.jpg?ixlib=rb 1.1When participants enter the NDIS, they go through a planning process to determine their reasonable and necessary supports.
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Damian Palmer, Charles Sturt University

It’s widely known there are significant problems with the way the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is operating.

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NDIS hasnt made much difference for carers

The NDIS hasn’t made much difference to carers’ opportunities for paid work
File 20181001 19024 16ufrn7.jpg?ixlib=rb 1.1Many carers of people with disability face barriers to paid employment.
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Myra Hamilton, UNSW

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) began a full national rollout in July 2016 with a fundamental objective to give those with a disability choice and control over their daily lives.

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NDIS for people with intellectual disability

How to improve the NDIS for people who have an intellectual disability as well as a mental illness
File 20181002 85611 12drwhl.jpg?ixlib=rb 1.1People with mental illness as well as an intellectual disability find it harder to receive sufficient NDIS supports.
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Karen R Fisher,

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NDIS for some

The NDIS is delivering ‘reasonable and necessary’ supports for some, but others are missing out
File 20180904 41729 1qedq7a.jpg?ixlib=rb 1.1The majority of NDIS participants are happy with the support they’ve received under the scheme.
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Carmel Laragy, RMIT University

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) began a full national rollout in July,

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