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Assessment

Assessment including screening (client) & Assessment including screening (carer)

• Assessment (and re-assessment) refers to activities of eligibility and access to services that are directly attributable to individual care recipients.
• The client can be either the person who is cared for or the carer.
• The Assessment process refers to four different elements, which may be undertaken in conjunction or separately by a Service. It is expected that both assessment for support needs and assessment for service response will be ongoing, with re-assessment occurring on a regular basis or as a response to changing need, as the client’s situation requires.
• The four elements are defined as follows:
  1. Assessment for eligibility;
  2. Assessment for support needs;
  3. Assessment for service response; and
  4. Priority allocation
• While most Services will undertake some form of assessments, the extent and nature of assessment activities will vary from Service to Service, and across different Service types.
• Not all these activities are necessarily undertaken face-to-face.

Subsequent assessments and reassessments undertaken by the Service are also considered a critical opportunity for Services to assess the currency of the information they have recorded about the client and to update this where necessary. Any time assessment activity is undertaken on behalf of the client, the Date of last update should be changed to reflect this work.