Resources

The palliAGED Practice Tip Sheets for careworkers in aged care contain information on palliative care for older people. The Tip Sheets cover what you need to know and what you can do across 42 topics.

The palliAGED Practice Tip Sheets for nurses in aged care provide information across 42 topics for nurses new to providing palliative care.

What matters to me is a brochure from the Department of Health and Aged Care providing ideas on how to start the conversation about your end-of-life care.

The Pain Management Guide Toolkit by NARI for Aged Care is a free resource to help the book Pain in Residential Aged Care Facilities.

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.