Resources

The Enabling Risk workbook introduces the concept of risk enablement, showing support workers how to balance positive risk-taking with minimising harm so people with cognitive disabilities can pursue meaningful activities.

The European toolkit helps policymakers and long-term care providers understand what a human-rights-based approach (HRBA) to care entails and how to apply human rights standards in everyday practice for older persons in long-term care.

This guideline by OPAN supports aged care providers to improve responses to, and prevent, sexual assault in residential aged care.

This web page explains how the Commission regulates aged care using a rights-based approach, with older people’s dignity, choice and safety at the centre. 

This practical guide from the Victoria Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission is a practical guide for community organisations on how to embed human rights into everyday work, not just in theory but in decision-making, policies, and service delivery.

This webpage from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission describes the Aged Care Code of Conduct that guides how people must behave when they deliver funded aged care services. It has 8 ‘elements’ that set out required behaviours. The page contains a video to guide providers and workers. 

The Living Well in Multi-purpose Services outlines 8 key principles of care that enhance the quality of life and wellbeing of residents living in multi-purpose service (MPS) facilities. This checklist helps staff identify how well they are caring for residents.

The web page from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission explains how older people, families, carers and workers can raise concerns or make a complaint about an aged care provider, worker or responsible person with the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, including options to complain openly, confidentially or anonymously.

This article by Advance Care Planning Australia outlines what aged care providers need to do to embed a rights-based approach to advance care planning, centred on choice, dignity and supported decision-making. It emphasises that advance care planning should be ongoing, person-led and integrated into everyday care - not treated as a one-off compliance task.

This fact sheet from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission explains registered aged care provider responsibilities when a person receiving residential care is thinking about or wants to access voluntary assisted dying (VAD).