New Aged Care Act resources for older people, their families and carers

These resources can help you understand what and how changes will impact you under the new Aged Care Act.

General Aged Care Act 2024 information

Read a summary and explanation of the main amendments made to the new Act during the parliamentary process.

The Aged Care Act 2024 plain language fact sheet is available in 6 languages, and Easy Read. It gives a summary of each chapter of the new Act.

You can also read about the key changes in the Act for older people.

Subscribe to EngAged to receive monthly updates about the aged care reforms and ageing well.

For information about the changes to aged care and how these changes will improve aged care, read the Exploring aged care booklet

Module 1: A guide for older people – Understanding and Adapting the Aged Care Act 2024 Coming soon.

Read the Sector Change Plan to see what activities are underway to support the sector to transition to the new Act.

Read the ‘What is new or changing’ document to see what is new, what is changing and what is staying the same under the new Act.

Places to people

Read the embedding choice in residential aged care fact sheet to understand how the new system will assign places directly to older people.

Single Assessment

The Single Assessment System fact sheet is available in 11 languages, and Easy Read.

It explains how we are:

  • reforming aged care assessments
  • making it easier to enter aged care and access different services as your needs change. This fact sheet has been translated into 10 languages.

The Single Assessment System for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people fact sheet explains how the new system will benefit older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Statement of Rights

This Statement of Rights plain language fact sheet is available in 6 languages and Easy Read. It provides a summary of the rights older people have when accessing aged care services.

Supported Decision Making

Under the new Aged Care Act, older people must be treated with respect and are presumed to have the ability to make decisions. If they want help to make decisions they can choose to have a registered supporter. Read more about this role, what it replaces and what is staying the same on the department’s website.

Read about upcoming changes to support roles and relationships on the My Aged Care website to understand how you can be supported to make your own decisions.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Tailored resources explain how the changes will benefit older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people:

Support at Home

The Support at Home program will start from 1 July 2025:

Read about key changes under the new program:

If you currently receive a Home Care Package:

Contributions and accommodation reform

For information on the new fee and the transition from previous arrangements:

Quality Indicators

The Quality Indicator fact sheet describes each indicator and how we monitor residential aged care services.

Strengthened Quality Standards

The strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards manual sets out what quality care looks like.

Fees and means testing

Understand how residential aged care fees are changing, watch the residential care fees and means testing webinar.

Whistleblower protections

The new Act will do more to protect whistleblowers – people who call out issues. Understand who you can report to and how.

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