Please find below a list of useful links for the Aged Care Industry:

Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency
The website of the agency responsible for managing the aged care accreditation process in Australia. It outlines the accreditation process, provides guidelines for the health care industry, lists recent accreditation decisions by state and answers frequently asked questions.

Agedcare Crisis
This Australian site "offers a rich source of independently researched articles, guides, checklists, statistics and publications including a bulletin board".

Ageing and Aged Care Division of the Department of Health and Ageing
This site contains extensive information on Community and Residential care services in Australia and their associated costs. There is also information for care consumers and providers, many fulltext documents on the Government's Healthy Ageing Australia initiative, the Aged Care Act 1997, International Year of Older Persons (IYOP) publications and The National Strategy for an Ageing Australia policy statement.

Australian Society for Geriatric Medicine (ASGM)
The ASGM is a society of medical practitioners engaged in the practice of Geriatric Medicine or related disciplines. The page includes position statements in full text covering e.g. elder abuse, nutrition, medical care for people in residential aged care services, dementia, physical restraint.

Commonwealth Carelink Centres
Commonwealth Carelink Centres are information centres for older people, people with disabilities and those who provide care and services. Centres provide free and confidential information on community aged care, residential care, disability and other support services available locally, intrastate or anywhere within Australia.

Health Insite: Ageing section
Australian government initiative - a gateway to age related health information with links to Department of Health and Ageing, individual topic pages, Seniors Portal homepage including full-text resources.

International Research Centre on Heathy Ageing and Longevity (IRCHAL)
Free Australian website designed to access reliable information about ageing, using quality assured websites, research databases, planning tools, statsitics, maps, contact lists and more.

National Toilet Map
The National Public Toilet Map. A project of the National Continence Management Strategy.