Publications
National Aged Care Workforce Strategy
The National Aged Care Workforce Strategy is an informed reliable framework for long-term structural reforms of the aged care workforce.
You may download the National Aged Care Workforce Strategy document in PDF format:
PDF printable version of the National Aged Care Workforce Strategy (PDF 946 KB)
Implementing the Strategy will assist the industry build a sustainable and viable aged care sector. There is no doubt that this need will increase, as the population ages, and the Strategy will ensure that appropriate actions and initiatives are implemented to meet this need.
Participants from all sections of the residential aged care sector have offered their experience of the issues faced through a broad consultation process that was fundamental in the development of this Strategy. Consultation forums were conducted across Australia in capital cities and regional areas.
If you are unable to download the PDF file please send an email to: acc@health.gov.au for a copy to be sent to you.
Media releases
- Delivering More Aged Care Places For Eastern Melbourne
- WA hospitals boosted by record number of new nurses and more to come
- $25 Million for accommodation for aged and disadvantaged
- Christmas message – remember to check in on your elderly relatives and neighbours
- 6,500 more aged care places for older Australians
Program/Initiatives
- Better HealthCare Connections: Aged Care Multidisciplinary Care Coordination and Advisory Service Program
- Better Health Care Connections: Models for Short Term, More Intensive Health Care for Aged Care Recipients Program
- Specialist Training Program (STP)
- Oral Health Therapist Graduate Year Measure
- Encouraging Better Practice in Aged Care (EBPAC)
Publications
- 2012 National Aged Care Workforce Census and Survey – The Aged Care Workforce, 2012 – Final Report
- Australian Government Directory of Services for Older People 2012/13
- Interim Evaluation of the Northern Territory Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Aged Care Workforce Development Projects
- Consumer Directed Care Evaluation
- Australian Government response to Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration Report: Residential and Community Aged Care in Australia
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