Through our advisory work, Meaningful Ageing Australia is able to offer aged care service providers, researchers, policy makers, older people and the general community expert advice on how to meet the emotional wellbeing and spiritual care needs of older people.

Who can we assist?

Our team is able to provide bespoke advisory to assess and benchmark competency and cultural readiness in order to integrate best practice emotional wellbeing and spiritual care in line with the National Guidelines for Spiritual Care in Aged Care.

Residential aged care
Retirement Living
In home care
Wellbeing programs
Intergenerational programs
CEO and Leadership Teams
Corporate Governance

‘As spirituality is integral to quality of life and well-being, it should be accessible to all older people in way that is meaningful to their beliefs, culture and circumstances. The identification of spiritual needs and offering of spiritual care is the responsibility of all care-givers and must be undertake in ways that are appropriate to their role.’
The National Guidelines for Spiritual Care in Aged Care (2016) Meaningful Ageing Australia

Typical scope assessed

Effective spiritual care is more often achieved through a whole-of-organisation approach. Spiritual care is best reflected in key systems and processes that embed the principles and outcomes within a model of care. A key success factor for implementation of the Guidelines is the active engagement of those in leadership roles at all levels. This starts with the governing body and flows through to senior executives, program managers and team leaders on the floor. Integrating spiritual care into key human resource practices is more likely to ‘hard-wire’ a focus on emotional wellbeing and spirituality throughout the organisation.

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We also connect providers to services and resources. Together we are working to ensure aged care services include the holistic needs of all older people that is inclusive of the diverse cultural, multifaith or spiritual aspects of high quality care and meaning making for all older Australians.