Resources

This report highlights the experiences of older LGBTI people, showing how discrimination and invisibility affect ageing and access to care. It calls for inclusive, culturally safe services that respect identity, dignity and chosen families, drawing on insights from National Seniors Australia.

This report by the Consumer Health Forum Australia and the George Institute for Global Health puts consumers at the heart of care and decision-making. It calls for systems that empower people, value lived experience and respond to what matters most to them.

This project report by Steele et al. highlights the harms experienced by people living with dementia in residential aged care and frames reparations as a rights-based response to acknowledge, address and prevent those harms. It sets out principles and recommendations to strengthen accountability, justice and dignity within the aged care system.

This report from the Grattan Institute examines the future of aged care through a rights-based lens, outlining system-level reforms to strengthen dignity, choice and accountability. Written ahead of the new Aged Care Act, it provides forward-looking recommendations based on the authors views.

This guideline from the Nursing Homes Ireland and the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery is intended for nursing home care providers, managers and staff working in nursing homes in Ireland. Although not Australian it provides information that maybe useful in relation to local implementation of rights based care in residential settings.

This paper by the Aged Care Workforce Remote Accord discusses the significance of ageing and dying on Country for First Nations communities, and explores a number of barriers to delivering services that support people ageing and dying on Country in remote Australia.

This review by the Office Of The Inspector-General Of Aged Care examines whether My Aged Care effectively upholds older people’s rights to dignity, fairness and equitable access, and identifies reforms needed to ensure the system’s entry point is genuinely accessible and rights-based.

This policy by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission sets out it's approach to detecting, assessing and responding to risks arising from the actions, in actions and behaviours of aged care workers and responsible persons to safeguard the safety, well being and rights of older people receiving care.

This framework by the National Ageing Research Institute has been designed specifically for the Australian in-home aged care context. It has been developed to guide aged care organisations in the implementation of technology.

This report by the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority provides an overview of current models of virtual care in Australia and internationally to better understand virtual care activity, costs, and models of care.