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Record series

Geriatric Community Care Service Meeting Minutes and Papers

VPRS 18922
1967 - 1981
Open
North Melbourne
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Agencies

This record series was created by:
Mount Royal Hospital (previously known as Immigrants' Aid Society 1854-1870; Immigrants’ Aid Society’s Home for Houseless and Destitute Persons 1870-1902; Victorian Homes for the Aged and Infirm 1902-1925; Victorian Benevolent Home and Hospital for the Aged and Infirm 1925-1939; Mount Royal 1939 - 1958; Mount Royal Special Hospital for the Aged 1958 - 1979) ( VA1280 ): 1967 - 1981
Agencies responsible for this record series:
The Royal Melbourne Hospital (Melbourne Hospital 1841 - 1935; The Amalgamated Melbourne and Essendon Hospitals 1986 - 1989) ( VA 1048 ): 2021 - present

Date Range

Series date range: 1967 - 1981
Series in custody: 1967 - 1981
Contents in custody: 1967 - 1981

Function / Content

This series comprises minutes and papers of the Geriatric Community Care Service for the City of Brunswick associated with Mount Royal Hospital (VA 1280).

The Geriatric Community Care Service for the City of Brunswick commenced in 1973 as a home care service catering for the health and social needs of older people living in the community. The Service provided a combination of medical, allied health, nursing, clerical staff and tradesmen who visited patients in their homes. The purpose of this was to allow patients to accept treatment and assistance in the environment in which they felt most comfortable. Later visits were also undertaken to day hospitals and day centres. This service went on to be the model for the Aged Care Assessment Program that was formally begun by the Commonwealth Government in 1987.

Also included in this series is a related report entitled, ‘A Geriatric Community Care Service in Brunswick: A Pilot study based at Mount Royal Hospital’.

How to use the records

Consult the list of record titles in this series.

Recordkeeping system

This is an artificially created series of unregistered documents with papers grouped according to topic.