Navigating the reforms

This toolkit helps aged care providers and community groups explain the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards to older people, their families and carers. These changes start on 1 November 2025.

From 1 November 2025, under the Aged Care Act 2024 (the new Act), registered providers will have to meet certain conditions of registration, obligations and statutory duties when delivering funded aged care services.

This is a double-sided A4 printable resource which summarises what rights older people have when accessing aged care services. Providers can use this resource in welcome packs for older people accessing their services.

This is a double-sided A3 poster which summarises what rights older people have when accessing aged care services. Providers can pin it up around their organisation, such as resident common areas, staff break rooms and bulletin boards.  

The Aged Care Act 2024 (the new Act) sets out a condition of registration for registered aged care providers delivering meals, snacks and drinks to an older person’s home or as part of community, centre-based and cottage respite

The final version of the Aged Care Rules have been published on the Federal Register of Legislation. The Rules provide further detail and instruction on how the new Aged Care Act will work. 

This webinar will introduce the Aged Care Provider Requirements Search tool. The tool has been designed to help providers understand the rules, obligations and other requirements which will apply to them under the new Aged Care Act, which starts on 1 November 2025. 

This fact sheet for providers provides guidance on the allocation of pooled care management funds within a service delivery branch. 

This funding model allows providers to flexibly adjust support for participants based on their needs rather than assigning a fixed number of care hours monthly.  

This new guidance helps aged care providers, including those in rural and remote communities, meet their Support at Home responsibilities in a culturally meaningful way.  

This new Aged Care Act roadmap outlines key dates and milestones that aged care providers should be aware of in the lead up to the start of the new Aged Care Act from 1 November 2025.

This toolkit provides information and materials to help aged care providers, peak bodies, advocacy organisations and community groups inform older people, their families and carers about how the aged care workforce should operate under the new Aged Care Act. 

This toolkit provides information and materials to help providers, professional associations and unions inform aged care workers about the new ways of working under the new Aged Care Act. 

These FAQs are for older people, families and carers to better understand the Support at Home program and changes that may impact them. The questions were collected at a webinar held on 14 August 2025.

Beta versions of the Registered Nurses 3.0, Authentication 2.0, Provider Management 2.0 and Quality Indicators 2.0 APIs move into production on 1 November 2025 to ensure compliance with the new Aged Care Act.