Booklets
Exploring aged care
The booklet is aimed at older people and their families and carers. It contains information about the changes to aged care and how these changes will improve aged care in Australia now and into the future.
Let’s change aged care together – Flyer
This flyer is for older people and their families and carers. It contains information about the changes to aged care and how people can get involved.
Fact sheets
Webinar 6: Connect with community – Questions and answers
This document provides answers to the questions raised during the Connect with community webinar held on 14 May 2026.
Access the outdoors – Questions and answers
This document provides answers to the questions raised during the Access the outdoors webinar held on 30 April 2026
Aged Care Council of Elders – Council member profiles
Read the Council of Elders profiles to find out more about each of the members including their background, lived experiences and why ageing well and aged care are important to them.
Webinar 4: Cultivate a home – Questions and answers
This document provides answers to the questions raised during the Cultivate a home webinar held on 16 April 2026.
List of Elder Care Support Providers
A list of current providers delivering the Elder Care Support program.
Webinar 3: Enable the person – Questions and answers
This document provides answers to the questions raised during the Enable the person webinar held on 31 March 2026.
Webinar 2: Designing better aged care environments – Questions and answers
This document provides answers to the questions raised during the Designing better aged care environments webinar held on 12 March 2026.
Webinar 1: Living well in care – A conversation for older people – Questions and answers
This document provides answers to the questions raised during the Living well in care – A conversation for older people webinar held on 26 February 2026.
Training and professional development opportunities for aged care workers
Information about free and government subsidised opportunities to support workers in building and refining their professional aged care skills.
Improving allied health care in residential aged care
We are developing a practical, user-friendly assessment tool to identify the allied health needs of residents in aged care homes.
Webinars
Webinar 15: Multi-Purpose Service – Aged Care Reforms: Impacts on the MPSP and providers
The fifteen webinar in the series provides information on the new Act, systems updates and final client transitional arrangements for Multi-Purpose Service (MPS) providers.
Residential Care Service List and Higher Everyday Living Fee
This webinar is for older people and the aged care sector. It will provide general information on the types of services you can expect in residential aged care. It will broadly cover the Residential Care Service List and the Higher Everyday Living Fee.
Webinar 14: Multi-Purpose Service – Aged Care Reforms: Impacts on the MPSP and providers
The fourteenth webinar in the series provides information on the new Act, systems updates and final client transitional arrangements for Multi-Purpose Service (MPS) providers.
Financial reporting – Aged Care Financial Report 2025-26 – Webinar
This webinar provides an overview of changes to the Aged Care Financial Report (ACFR) for 2025-26 due to the transition to the new Aged Care Act and Support at Home program. We encourage residential aged care and Support at Home providers to attend to understand key financial reporting changes.
Webinar 8: Transforming aged care homes
This webinar is for people working in aged care and design. It explores case studies and learnings on refurbishing existing homes and briefing for new builds. Learn how to plan and implement practical improvements.
Webinar 7: Designing culturally safe aged care
This webinar is for aged care and design professionals. Attendees learned about a new complementary resource to the Principles and Guidelines, culturally safe design, and community collaboration to help create culturally safe aged care homes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Webinar 6: Principle 4 – Connect with community
This webinar is for people working in aged care and design. Learn how environments can help older people maintain meaningful connections.
Webinar 5: Principle 3 – Access the outdoors
This webinar is for people working in aged care and design. Participants learned about the importance of spending time outdoors for older people living in aged care.
Webinar 4: Principle 2 – Cultivate a home
This was a webinar for people working in aged care and design. Attendees learned about designing ‘households’ and spaces that feel homely and support privacy, control, and belonging.
Webinar 3: Principle 1 – Enable the person
This webinar is for people working in aged care and design. Learn about enabling environments and how to assess an environment.
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