Resources

This Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission tool can provide an understanding of existing clinical governance arrangements, identify where gaps exist, and suggest actions that can be taken to address these gaps. Where relevant, this tool includes links to requirements in the Quality Standards. (Clicking on the link will download an MS Word doc.)

This tool from the Australian Institute of Company Directors examines clinical governance within an organisational governance framework and the board’s role in its oversight.

This tool from the Victorian Healthcare Association provides a tailored clinical governance checklist with the aim of assisting boards to strengthen their governance and oversight processes.

This transformational toolkit presented by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) outlines the details of what are needed to run a virtual reality (VR) session including safety assessment, selecting applications, advice on running sessions, resources needed and frequently asked questions (FAQs).

An interactive toolkit from the Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI), NSW Health, providing practical information, resources and tools for using a co-design approach to service improvements. Although the focus is healthcare, the principles can be readily applied to the aged care setting. Developed with consideration of Aboriginal communities participating in co-design projects.

A series of short, easy-to-understand practical guides and learning resources (some in a range of languages) for staff to better protect themselves online and reduce the impact of a cyber attack on a business. Includes quizes to assess personal practices.

This manual by the Brightwater Care Group presents a toolkit for enhancing the social engagement of older adults with cognitive decline in residential aged care.

This toolkit provides practical information about the law at end of life for the aged care sector. It contains useful resources on end of life legal issues commonly encountered in aged care.

The ELDAC Residential Aged Care Toolkit has evidence-based resources on palliative care and advance care planning that can assist you and your organisation in meeting the Aged Care Quality Standards.

Helping you to establish or improve linkages between aged, primary and palliative care services to provide the best possible palliative care and advance care planning for older persons in your care. An ELDAC resource.