Ageing & Aged Care

Doug and Jodie have completed an significant volume and scope of work for all levels of government and the service sector as Faircloth McNair & Associates and in previous consulting appointments.


Demonstrated Expertise

Since 2003, Doug and Jodie have led or contributed to more than 1,800 individual projects that have been built on a strong platform of research, including demographic and program data, literature and stakeholder consultations.


  • Rural and remote ageing & aged care

     

    Ongoing  development of rural and remote ageing and aged care strategies and solutions embodied, exemplified by the following:


    An Alternate Model of Aged Care for Regional, Rural and Remote Australia using North West Tasmania as an exemplar (Department of Health and Ageing 2009 to 2011).


    Wheatbelt Integrated Aged Care Planning


    Development of a suite of integrated aged care solutions for the Wheatbelt region of WA, with funding support from Royalties for Regions, WA Country Health (WACHS), Wheatbelt Development Commission, South West WA  Medicare Local and Regional Development Australia (Wheatbelt). 


    Three distinct pieces of work were completed over the period 2011-2014 :


    • Central East Wheatbelt Aged Care Solution
    • Wheatbelt Integrated Aged Care Solution
    • Wheatbelt Aboriginal Aged Care Framework

    Based on the Wheatbelt-focused work, a WA statewide regional ageing and care strategy “Ageing in the Bush” was competed for WA Regional Development Council 2014 (data updated 2018 & 2021)


    This body of work was considered by  International Federation of Ageing Secretary General, Dr Jane Barrett (2016), to have provided the framework for implementing perhaps the largest scope of aged care initiatives in the world.


    Statewide Strategic Plan for the United Protestant Association of NSW 

    2016


    UPA have a strong focus in rural areas, and utilise an integrated ageing and aged care approach.


    Older Persons Services and Accommodation 

    2019 


    Planning for Rural Councils Victoria (34 local government areas).



    This project included an economic analysis and impact of both retaining and attracting older people to each LGA.



  • Aged care & primary health infrastructure planning


    Projects include focused demographic analysis, health data analysis, identification and review of national and international best practice, service mapping and demand analysis/ projections (primary health, older persons’ housing and aged care services), land use modelling (particularly for integrated rural service models). 


    Works undertaken include :


    • A national scan of all aged care planning regions using a multi-dimensional regression scale to score best options for the Salvation Army to develop or acquire residential aged care  facilities (2016-2017)

    • Aged care and older person housing planning and specialist advisory services for residential aged care site planning options, Shire of Boddington WA (2012, 2021 & 2022)

    • Service mapping and demand analysis for two multi-discipline GP clinics in suburban Perth for the Australian Property Collective (2020 & 2021)

    • Aged care and independent living unit (ILU) business case analysis for Numurkah Health, Victoria (2017)

    • Development of a health service collaboration in Victoria’s Hume Region to deliver integrated aged care building on health service capability (2015-2016)

    • Development of a business plan and related research to develop and integrated older persons’ housing and aged care precinct with primary health services in Litchfield NT for You are Important Australia (2019) 

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