Description

Our Mission
Polio Australia provides quality information and facilitates service provision across Australia ensuring that polio survivors have access to appropriate health care and the support required to maintain independence and make informed lifestyle choices.

The purpose of Polio Australia is to:

~ Educate and inform polio survivors, their families and carers, and the community at large about the late effects of polio.
~ Provide information, education and training to General Practitioners and a range of medical specialists and other health professionals to improve the diagnosis and management of the late effects of polio.
~ Facilitate the provision of appropriate and consistent health, disability and aged care support services across all states and territories to improve the treatment and management of the late effects of polio.
~ Provide outreach to culturally and linguistically diverse and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander polio survivors to ensure their diverse needs are being met in a culturally appropriate way.
~ Advise governments on policy development and programs in relation to the late effects of polio.
~ Stimulate research into the late effects of polio.
~ Assist the state Networks to support polio survivors and their families, friends and carers at the local level.
~ Facilitate and encourage the co-ordination and further development of activities within and between the state Networks.
~ Support and promote polio immunisation at a national level, and provide assistance to the state Networks to do so at the local level.

Website

Polio Australia

State

Victoria

Social Category

Aged Care/Disabilities