Resources

This report by the Lowitja Institute details a project that demonstrates the importance of strengthening and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership to create opportunities to enhance employment and retention to reinforce and to embed career pathways.  

This Open Access journal article by Liddle et al. explores clinic users’ experiences at their local clinic and how short-term staffing impacts service quality, acceptability, cultural safety, and continuity of care in ACCHSs in remote communities.

This guide by the National Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker and practitioners provides information to support GP's and practice managers to understand the benefits of the roles of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait IslanderHealth Workers and Health Practitioners.

This section of the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing website provides details into the government’s response to the Aged Care Royal Commission and subsequent reform related to First Nations communities. The information is relevant to First Nations Elders, their families and supporters.  

This article by Cunningham and Campbell discusses a new way to communicate with Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders who have dementia using communication cards.

The toolkit from the Indigenous Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (IPEPA) and the Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U) project provides five modules on palliative care, focusing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This webpage from the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet provides information to understand the cultural and spiritual considerations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families when providing palliative care. It also offers other resource formats to supplement the information. 

IPEPA training equips the healthcare workforce to deliver culturally-responsive and safe care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and their loved ones, who are living with an illness that will shorten the person’s life and lead to death.

These two videos about telehealth from the University of Queensland are an educational resource for health professionals and people with dementia and their families.

Cup of tea is a short animated video from Anglicare Northern Territory that tells the story of an elderly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carer Betty and her husband Brett, who requires daily aged care. Betty also cares for her grandchildren and finds she is not coping with all the daily caring responsibilities (available in English, Yolngu Matha and Anindilyakwa).