Publications

This toolkit provides materials to help residential aged care providers and consumer peak bodies communicate with residents, their families and carers about the Residents’ Experience Survey.

This snapshot provides information on the financial performance of the Australian aged care sector from 1 July to 30 September 2024. It includes analysis of residential care and home care.

The Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Declaration Framework and Implementation Plan offers a 10-year strategic approach to achieving the highest attainable standard of mental health and suicide prevention outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This guidance document provides information for aged care providers on the Fair Work Commission aged care award wage increase for nurses.

This table provides COVID-19 vaccination rates of aged care residents by facility across Australia over the past 12 months, using data from the Australian Immunisation Register.

These presentation slides are for the Award wage increase for nurses in aged care webinar held on Tuesday 18 February 2025.

This document provides answers to questions about the Fair Work Commission’s decision in the Aged Care Work Value Case which will deliver further increases to award wages for many registered and enrolled nurses working in aged care from 1 March 2025.

An infographic about the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) patient co-payment freeze for community and healthcare settings.

This document gives business guidance on claims and payments for providers who will be operating under Support at Home from July 2025.

This guide will help providers recording accrual invoices for labour costs and hours within the Quarterly Financial Report.

This checklist will support aged care providers in completing the Residential Care Labour Cost and Hours section of the Quarterly Financial Report.

These reports list the percentage of people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 by local government area (LGA).

This weekly report provides a snapshot of data on the impact of COVID-19 in residential aged care facilities nationally in 2025. It includes data on the number of services impacted and number of staff and resident cases, as well as workforce, vaccine rollout, testing and PPE provided to services.

This data file contains statistical data about Australia's COVID-19 vaccinations.

This presentation, delivered on 14 February 2025, contains an update to Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

This is an Easy Read update about short term actions in the National Roadmap for Improving the Health of People with Intellectual Disability.

This is a fact sheet about Medicare in Easy Read format.

This is a fact sheet about bulk billing in Easy Read format.

This is a fact sheet about the Child Dental Benefits Schedule in Easy Read format.

This is a revised draft of the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards that reflects wording changes for the subordinate legislation drafting process under the new Aged Care Act 2024.

The Stage 3 release of the Aged Care Rules focuses on provider obligations under Chapter 3 of the new Aged Care Act. This document aims to help people better understand the Rules and support them to submit feedback.

The Stage 3 release of the Aged Care Rules focuses on provider obligations under Chapter 3 of the new Aged Care Act.

This document gives guidance on the actions Home Care Package providers and Short-Term Restorative Care providers should take to be operationally ready to transition to the Support at Home program.

This document summarises the Transitional Rules which will support a seamless transition between the existing and the new legal frameworks for aged care.

These slides are for the residential care fees and means testing webinar held on 11 February 2025.