Resources

This toolkit from Dementia Training Australia focuses on assessing and managing behavioural interventions for people living with dementia. It also links to resources to assess for wandering in long term care and in community and video presentation with slides on developing behavioural interventions. 

The ELDAC dementia toolkit provides evidence-based information, guidance, and a range of resources to support health professionals and aged care staff in palliative care and advance care planning for people living with dementia and their families. It is structured around two main sections: clinical care and education and learning. 

A guide to a series of Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission resources that can be used as the basis for a clinical governance framework for services that do not already have one. This guide can also be used by services that already have a clinical governance framework to review their existing framework and identify opportunities for improvement.

This Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission information sheet describes the steps that should be taken when developing and implementing a clinical governance framework, or reviewing and identifying areas for improvement where a clinical governance framework is already in place.

This Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission tool can be used by people responsible for developing a clinical governance framework for an aged care service to support an understanding of the characteristics of the aged care service and consumers, and to inform clinical governance arrangements. (Clicking on the link will download an MS Word doc.)

This Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission tool can provide an understanding of existing clinical governance arrangements, identify where gaps exist, and suggest actions that can be taken to address these gaps. Where relevant, this tool includes links to requirements in the Quality Standards. (Clicking on the link will download an MS Word doc.)

This tool from the Australian Institute of Company Directors examines clinical governance within an organisational governance framework and the board’s role in its oversight.

This tool from the Victorian Healthcare Association provides a tailored clinical governance checklist with the aim of assisting boards to strengthen their governance and oversight processes.

This transformational toolkit presented by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) outlines the details of what are needed to run a virtual reality (VR) session including safety assessment, selecting applications, advice on running sessions, resources needed and frequently asked questions (FAQs).

An interactive toolkit from the Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI), NSW Health, providing practical information, resources and tools for using a co-design approach to service improvements. Although the focus is healthcare, the principles can be readily applied to the aged care setting. Developed with consideration of Aboriginal communities participating in co-design projects.