Resources

This report by NATSIAACC summarises key findings from IGAC’s review of My Aged Care, highlighting the impacts of the system on older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and identifying priorities for culturally safe engagement, access, governance and service improvement.

This report by the Jumbunna Institute Indigenous Policy Hub examines accountability arrangements between Australian states/territories and Indigenous peoples, highlighting strengths and gaps in policy, governance and partnerships to support culturally respectful, transparent and effective shared decision-making.

This chapter from SAHMRI outlines how ACCHO's can integrate culturally centred aged care services within their primary health care model to support Elders’ wellbeing, promote culturally safe care and improve access to home-based and community supports for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This report by Jame Cook University and the Healthy Ageing Reearch Team (HART) outlines community-driven strategies developed with Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area elders and health partners to support holistic wellbeing, cultural continuity and connection so people can age well in place within their communities.

This report from the RACGP’s provides GPs and health professionals with background on history, cultural protocols and respectful engagement to support culturally safe practice and meaningful partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.

This practical guide from the Victoria Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission is a practical guide for community organisations on how to embed human rights into everyday work, not just in theory but in decision-making, policies, and service delivery.

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.