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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Needs assessments and care and rehabilitation plans - Assessment of care and rehabilitation needs

16: Purposes of needs assessment

You could also call this:

"Figuring out the care and support you need to get better"

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When you are assessed to see what care you need, the assessment is done for a few reasons. You are assessed to figure out what kind of care you need. You are also assessed to find services that can provide the care you need.

You are assessed to make a plan for your care and rehabilitation. This plan is made just for you. The assessment helps make this plan.

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Part 3Needs assessments and care and rehabilitation plans
Assessment of care and rehabilitation needs

16Purposes of needs assessment

  1. The purposes of the process for assessing the needs of a care recipient are—

  2. to assess the kind of care that the care recipient needs; and
    1. to identify 1 or more suitable services capable of providing care of that kind for the care recipient; and
      1. to prepare a care and rehabilitation plan for the care recipient.