Resources

This Eastern Sector Development Team (ESDT) article highlights inclusive person-centred care as a rights-based, culturally safe model that honours each individual’s unique values, preferences and life history in aged care. It emphasises that services should be respectful, responsive and inclusive of diversity so that older people are truly seen, heard and valued in how care is planned and delivered.

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 training module from Ausmed explores how to align with the Statement of Rights in the upcoming Aged Care Act by providing person-centred, rights-based care that values individual needs, preferences and autonomy. It includes key principles, benefits and practical strategies to enhance wellbeing, social connection and quality of life.

This information sheet from CARESEARCH provides tools and resources to help you understand and address patient autonomy, dignity, and enable choice.

This Spanish article from SOM examines how to respond when workers show resistance to rights-based care approaches, focusing on mental health service delivery, and shares good-practice examples to support change in practice.

This video from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing details the new rights-based Aged Care Act and how it intends to change aged care for the better. 

This Open Access article by Moilanen et al. reviewed how older people perceive autonomy in residential care. It found that autonomy is shaped by individual capacities, relationships, professional practices, and organisational and environmental factors that can either enable or restrict older people’s control over their care.

This webpage from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing provides a comprehensive list of resources to help aged care workers understand what has changed and how to put the new Aged Care Act into practice.

This information sheet by NSW Government describes what First Nations people should expect based on their rights in health care related to the Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights.