Aged Care Transitional Intervention Program (ACTIP)
ACTIP is a community aged care program that provides short term support (up to 8 weeks), case management and clinical interventions to eligible persons following a recent reduction in their independence due to illness or injury.
ACTIP is a restorative program that includes care coordination, assessment, goal setting, care planning and referral.
Services offered
Must include two of the following:
- nursing
- occupational therapy
- physiotherapy
- social work
- case management.
- A person who is 65 years or over, with an illness/injury.
- An Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander who is over 45 years of age.
- A person who would benefit from a short-term intensive period of intervention.
- A registered client of a palliative care service.
- A person who is unable to access nursing or allied health via a HCP provider.
Clients have to have at least one of the following:
- recent acute illness/injury or change of circumstances resulting in reduced ability to self-care temporarily
- recent exacerbation of chronic illness resulting in a reduced ability to self-care temporarily
- recent surgical intervention resulting in a reduced ability to self-care temporarily
- lives alone and lacks support networks
- carer is aged and debilitated (frail aged)
- client is carer of an aged debilitated person (frail aged)
- recent episodes of confusion or disorientation.