Resources

This guide explains how clinical aged care needs assessors and assessment delegates should enter and manage Short-Term Restorative Care (STRC) details in the My Aged Care assessor portal.

This schedule applies to people who first entered care on or after 1 July 2014. It also applies to those who entered care before this date and have chosen to be covered by the 1 July 2014 arrangements.

This flyer gives aged care providers information about how they can be verified on My Aged Care for the specialist care they offer to older people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences.

This flyer gives aged care providers information about the free aged care translation service, which they can use to produce translated versions of print and digital materials in different languages, as well as ‘Easy Read’ or ‘Easy English’ translation.

This flyer gives aged care providers information about how they can access TIS National free of charge for phone interpreting, in-person interpreting and video interpreting, which enables communication with older people in different languages.

This flyer gives aged care providers information about free training and resources to help them care for older people with diverse backgrounds and life experience in a way that is respectful, safe and culturally appropriate.

The final framework sets out the criteria for specialised care delivery. Aged care providers who deliver specific services that meet diverse needs may apply for specialisation verification.

A Budget 2022–23 fact sheet.

This final report from Australian Healthcare Associates (AHA) outlines the results of a review into selecting special needs specialisations within the My Aged Care system's Find a Provider tool. It also discusses developing a framework to verify specialisations and research on ways to do this.

This resources order form is available to aged care providers, community organisations and individuals.

This resource helps aged care providers to consider the diverse characteristics and life experiences of older people. You can use this template to create a diversity plan that is tailored to the needs of your organisation and the people you provide services to.

Read and order hard copies of this booklet about accessing short-term restorative care.

This 2019 plan sets out the actions the Government will take to support the Aged Care Diversity Framework.

This guide helps lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, and intersex (LGBTI) elders to express their needs when speaking with aged care providers. It can also help people working in aged care to better understand LGBTI needs.

This guide helps older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to express their needs when speaking with aged care providers. It can also help people working in aged care to better understand the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This guide helps older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds to express their needs when speaking with aged care providers. It can also help people working in aged care to better understand CALD needs.

This plan sets out the actions that aged care providers can take to support the Aged Care Diversity Framework.

This action plan sets out what aged care providers can do to deliver more inclusive services to older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This action plan sets out what aged care providers can do to deliver more inclusive services to older culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people.

This action plan sets out what aged care providers can do to deliver more inclusive services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, and intersex (LGBTI) elders.

This diagram shows the key steps that providers should follow when providing short-term restorative care. It provides links, where available, to further guidance information.

This framework was launched in December 2017. It sets out the actions we can take to make sure aged care services meet the needs of people from diverse backgrounds. It sees a role for the Australian Government, peak organisations, representative groups, service providers, consumers and carers.