Aged care resources

This document lists and defines key terms used in My Aged Care to help assessors and service providers.

This guide explains to Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACAT) how to register a representative to speak on an older person’s behalf, and how to add relationships in My Aged Care.

This guide helps assessors refer older Australians for service recommendations made in the client’s support plan, based on the client’s preferred service provider in the My Aged Care assessor portal.

This guide gives people who use the My Aged Care assessor portal an overview of the portal and instructions on how to use it.

This guide explains to My Aged Care team leaders how to accept, reject, assign, un-assign and re-assign referrals to individual assessors, as well as how to transfer referrals between organisations.

These guidelines help Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACAT) to assess younger people seeking aged care services during the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) roll out.

This guide explains how to create and maintain information about service delivery outlets using the My Aged Care provider portal.

This snapshot shows this mission at a glance. It includes budget, early funding priorities and grant timelines, as at November 2019. Researchers and other stakeholders can use it to plan for upcoming opportunities and see how the mission will be established, expanded and embedded over time.

This spreadsheet shows the priorities and focus for the 2018–19 ACAR. It includes special needs groups and key issues for each Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3) in each state and territory. It also includes the category of priority, from 1 for highest priority to 6 for lowest priority.

This schedule applies to residential and home care recipients who first entered care on or after 1 July 2014. It also applies to those who entered care before this date and have chosen to be covered by the 1 July 2014 arrangements.

This fact sheet explains how My Aged Care user should prepare for the phasing out of AUSkey at the end of March 2020.

These quarterly reports provide an update on the operation of the Home Care Packages Program. They include statistics on assessment, approvals, services, people waiting for services, wait times and maximum exit amounts.

These reports have tables with reviews and review outcomes by state and ACFI question for the quarter, and upgrade and downgrade rates by state and question for the quarter.

These schemes for the viability supplement apply to some older residential aged care services.

This fact sheet is for residential aged care providers. Follow the steps to work out the number of points for your service under the 2017 scheme, to see whether you're eligible for the viability supplement.

Australian Government response to the House of Representatives’ Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport's Inquiry into the Quality of Care in Residential Aged Care Facilities in Australia.

This user guide is for Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACAT). It describes and explains how to use the ACAT Guidance Framework.

This guidance is for Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACAT). It informs and supports their decision making when recommending a high priority for a Home Care Package.

The Aged Care Financing Authority (ACFA) looked at the financial impact of improving payment arrangements in home care. They provided this report to Government on 11 December 2019.

This report forms part of the advice the Aged Care Financing Authority (ACFA) provided to the Australian Government on 11 December 2019. ACFA reviewed the financial impact of improving payment arrangements in home care.

The Chief Medical Officer has written to approximately 28,000 practitioners about new resources for prescribers to support care of people with dementia who live in residential aged care.

The trial of the AN-ACC residential aged care assessment tool started in November 2019. This fact sheet provides an overview of the trial.

Communiques for the 2019 meetings of the Aged Care Sector Committee.

This guide helps older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds to express their needs when speaking with aged care providers. It can also help people working in aged care to better understand CALD needs.

This guide helps older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds to express their needs when speaking with aged care providers. It can also help people working in aged care to better understand CALD needs.