Resources

This toolkit provides practical information about the law at end of life for the aged care sector. It contains useful resources on end of life legal issues commonly encountered in aged care.

The ELDAC Residential Aged Care Toolkit has evidence-based resources on palliative care and advance care planning that can assist you and your organisation in meeting the Aged Care Quality Standards.

Helping you to establish or improve linkages between aged, primary and palliative care services to provide the best possible palliative care and advance care planning for older persons in your care. An ELDAC resource.

The ELDAC Home Care Toolkit is designed for health professionals and care staff providing palliative care and supporting advance care planning for older Australians living with advanced life limiting illnesses, their families and carers.

This toolkit from the Department of Health serves as a guide for service providers to effectively implement wellness and reablement principles.

This tookit from Relationships Australia SA was designed to support capacity building and confidence of care workers when responding to residents of aged care facilities with common mental health issues.

Information and tools from the Department of Health for Commonwealth Home Support Programme service providers to support them to prepare, implement and evaluate the embedding of wellness and reablement in their organisation.

This checklist from the Department of Health and Aged Care is a guide for organisations in evaluating how they applied the principles of wellness and reablement.

The Dementia Outcomes Measurement Suite (DOMS) compiled by the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration is a compendium of validated tools for the assessment of various aspects of dementia by health care professionals.

Free dementia information kit from Dementia Australia (*please note you must provide some information in order to access this resource).