Resources

This webpage from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission helps providers, older people and workers with resources to enable conversations about aged care. 

This rapid review by Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care provides information about culturally appropriate clinical care for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

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 Aging 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.

This article by Monash University describes the process of co-designing the inputs to a new model of care for recognising, assessing and treating depression in older adults.

This practice guide for clinicians, developed by Swinburne University of Technology and Murray PHN, offers practical, innovative, and evidence-based recommendations, insights, strategies, and step-by-step protocols for adapting and delivering psychological treatments to overcome multiple barriers to care - telling people how to do things rather than just why they matter.

This Open Access journal article, “A cup of tea and a chat”: A qualitative study on the mental healthcare preferences of Australian in-home aged care recipients and their experiences of accessing mental health services, by Julie Kelly et al, details the mental healthcare preferences of home care recipients and their access to and use of mental health services.