Resources

This booklet from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care provides recommendations for the delivery of patient-centred care.

This booklet from Victorian Active Ageing provides a literature synthesis of different approaches to engage older adults in organised physical activity.

This booklet from myagedcare explains how older people can receive support through the Short-Term Restorative Care Program.

This booklet was created by Beyond Blue for aged care staff and covers a range of interventions that can be used to promote emotional wellbeing or to help people with anxiety or depression.

The Royal Commission recognised that considerable work needed to be undertaken before the implementation of a new aged care program. This paper from the Department of Health and Aged Care describes the proposed design for the Support at Home Program to be implemented in 2023.

This booklet has been developed by HammondCare for aged care staff who are caring for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people.

This booklet from the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration has been written to help you understand why it is important for you to support people with dementia to make everyday decisions. There are practical examples in this booklet of how to do this.

This fact sheet from the Australian Association of Gerontology presents case studies on reablement approaches.

This resource from the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre and the Queensland University of Technology is designed to help you in your decision-making about respite by providing you with information from the carer’s perspective. In here you will find stories about carers and their experiences of respite care, as well as advice and tips to help you make the most of your respite experience.

This booklet from Dementia Australia SA provides information about gardening and dementia, including dementia and garden environments, gardens that heal, garden implementation process, dementia-specific gardens, and basic garden design ideas.