Resources

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.

This final report from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is based on a public consultation to clarify and strengthen legislation and regulation for AI in Australia’s healthcare settings.

This report from a European Think tank considers factors that impact on the adoption or non-adoption of technology enabled person-centred solutions by older adults and their care and support providers.

This report by Digital Health CRC aims to understand what would help or hinder the successful introduction of a single, standard way of assessing people’s care needs (using interRAI) across the Australian aged care system, so care information can be collected once and used better for care, planning and quality improvement.

This report by the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre and Digital Health CRC examines the current aged care data landscape, data capture, use and sharing across the sector, and the impact on care delivery. Considers if reforms are working as intended and where digital capabilities could be better applied.