CHC43015 Ageing Support- World Health Organization

Primary health care is defined by the World Health Organization as:

A whole-of-society approach to health that aims at ensuring the highest possible level of health and well-being and their equitable distribution by focusing on people’s needs and as early as possible along the continuum from health promotion and disease prevention to treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care, and as close as feasible to people’s everyday environment”.

 In this report you are required to: – 

 

1. Explain and analyse the way that aged care services are provided using a primary health care approach.

2. Discuss ways that older people can be supported to be in control of the services and care they receive.