Publications

This guidance helps clinical needs assessors to decide on a person's priority for Home Care Package services. The decision should be based on their clinical judgement, information they have gathered during a comprehensive assessment, and the care needs of the person.

This framework is for clinical needs assessors. It informs and supports their decision making when recommending Home Care Package levels.

This guidance is for clinical aged care needs assessors. It informs and supports their decision making when recommending a high priority for a Home Care Package.

This fact sheet helps assessors understand priority levels when assessing clients for services under the Commonwealth Home Support Programme or Home Care Packages. It also explains when a client’s priority needs to change.

This manual is for Assessment Organisations. It guides assessors on using good practices in the assessment of older people’s support needs and their eligibility for Australian Government–subsidised aged care services.

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 diagram shows the key steps for the Single Assessment System workforce who use the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT) to assess older people. It provides links, where available, to further guidance information.

This guide explains how to search and view client record information in the My Aged Care Service and Support Portal.

This guide explains how to enter and update service delivery information in the My Aged Care client record.

This form is for older Australians who want to apply for Australian Government-subsidised aged care, and for approved providers seeking approval for an emergency case.

This guide explains how aged care needs assessors can register clients and have those clients referred for assessment in the My Aged Care assessor portal.

This guide lists common keyboard shortcuts to make it easier for assessors to navigate the My Aged Care assessor portal.

This guide helps aged care needs assessors to use the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT) access and complete an assessment in the My Aged Care assessor portal.

This fact sheet explains how we are reforming aged care assessments to make it easier for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to enter aged care and access different services as your needs change.

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

In November 2023, we engaged Nous Consortium to undertake the National Review of First Nations Health Care in Prisons. This report presents evidence and recommendations for systemic reform to improve health care for First Nations people in places of detention and on release.

This communique is published following each meeting of the MBS Review Advisory Committee (MRAC). It summarises the meeting outcomes, progress on current reviews and advice about upcoming reviews.

This Easy Read fact sheet explains how we're making it easier to get aged care services.

Health Ministers met in Hobart today to discuss several health system reform priorities including the National Health Reform Agreement negotiations, health workforce reform, First Nations Health Care in Prisons, aged care, urgent care, and the current mpox outbreak.

A summary of the vision, purpose and actions contained in the National Dementia Action Plan 2024–2034.

These are the presentation slides for the in-home aged care update webinar held on 5 December 2024.

Health Ministers are very pleased to announce new appointments and reappointments of Chairs, practitioner members and community members to fill vacancies arising across 13 National Boards regulating health professions under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (the National Scheme)

Quarterly Financial Report (QFR) data definitions for aged care providers to refer to when completing their QFR submissions each quarter.

The National Dementia Action Plan 2024–2034 is Australia’s national dementia policy framework. It aims to improve the lives and care of people living with dementia, their carers and families over the next 10 years.

A framework that outlines how Australian, state and territory governments will monitor and report progress on the 8 high-level actions in the National Dementia Action Plan 2024–2034.