Resources

This video from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing explains how the standards provide protections and rights for older people, empowers them to make their own choices and decisions and makes them feel safe and comfortable, where they live.

This booklet by Dr Bauer and colleagues supports families and partners to understand sexuality and intimacy for people living in residential aged care, and why these remain important across later life. It also builds awareness for care staff, offering practical guidance to support dignity, rights and respectful care.

OPAN’s self-advocacy toolkit, helps older people understand their rights and speak up about their aged care needs and concerns. It includes clear information on aged care options, handling problems, protecting yourself, decision-making and costs to support stronger, rights-focused engagement with service providers.

This checklist from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission supports providers and workers to apply best practice in managing complaints and feedback. It outlines key actions, system requirements and available resources to strengthen effective, rights-based complaints management.

This webpage from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing explains that restrictive practices must only be used as a last resort to prevent serious harm in aged care. It outlines provider responsibilities to protect rights, seek consent, and use the least restrictive option for the shortest time.

This project report by Steele et al. highlights the harms experienced by people living with dementia in residential aged care and frames reparations as a rights-based response to acknowledge, address and prevent those harms. It sets out principles and recommendations to strengthen accountability, justice and dignity within the aged care system.

This report from the Grattan Institute examines the future of aged care through a rights-based lens, outlining system-level reforms to strengthen dignity, choice and accountability. Written ahead of the new Aged Care Act, it provides forward-looking recommendations based on the authors views.

This toolkit by the South Australian Government and COTA brings together key rights, laws and support services to help LGBTI+ people in South Australia understand, assert and safeguard their rights across the life course. It is designed to support diverse LGBTI+ communities with clear, accessible information that promotes dignity, inclusion and lifelong wellbeing.

This reflection sheet by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing can be used by aged care providers to use as a reflection tool when talking to older people, their families and carers about their care preferences.

This catalogue brings together learning modules and education resources from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing and the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission to support workforce capability under the Aged Care Act 2024. Resources are organised by key learning areas, including cultural safety, helping providers quickly identify training needs and select appropriate education options.