Resources

This tool from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, provides a practical self-reflection template to help aged care workers and providers consider how culture, values and assumptions shape care interactions. Includes a worked example and prompts for communication, assumptions, preferences, outcomes and organisational learning.

This guide from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is a complementary resource to National Aged Care Design and Principles and Guidelines. Co-designed with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the aged care sector and design experts, this guidance describes how to deliver culturally safe, respectful and healing aged care home design for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

This Eastern Sector Development Team (ESDT) article highlights inclusive person-centred care as a rights-based, culturally safe model that honours each individual’s unique values, preferences and life history in aged care. It emphasises that services should be respectful, responsive and inclusive of diversity so that older people are truly seen, heard and valued in how care is planned and delivered.

This report by Flinders University, Helping Hand and Alliance for Forgotten Australians, outlines evidence-based, trauma-informed recommendations to help aged care providers create respectful, safe and accessible aged care environments that recognise the unique needs and lived experiences of Forgotten Australians and Care Leavers as they age.

This guide by the Aged Care Quality Commission details how to provide culturally safe governance of aged care services. 

This project and training resources by SAHMRI are informed by a pilot study and evaluate an evidence-based model for culturally safe aged care. The views of First Nations participants informed the development of six cultural safety in aged care principles that provided the foundation for a training program for an aged care organisations.

This manual from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is for aged care service providers who receive funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program. It outlines the requirements of the program including service planning, staffing, health and safety, quality and advocacy.

This CEDA report contributes to the wellbeing, security and participation focus area of CEDA’s Progress 2050 vision for a better future for the next generation of Australians.

This report by the Healing Foundation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ageing Advisory Group (ATSIAAG) describes the themes and recommendations of a aged care forum in Melbourne on 5 June 2019.

This webinar from the Older Persons Advocacy Network covers the importance of trauma-informed and healing-centered approaches to aged care, innovative programs and advocacy for First Nations communities.