Links
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".
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.
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.
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.
Life Institute of Family Education
The Life Institute of Family Education provides onsite seminars and coaching for personal and professional development on a range of issues including Caring, designed for people who are caring for someone who is ageing, or ageing themselves, and are kee to understand what it means to age successfully.
National Toilet Map
The National Public Toilet Map. A project of the National Continence Management Strategy.
Nursing Homes Directory
Nursing homes directory for Australia
The Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine
The Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine is the professional society for geriatricians and other medical practitioners with an interest in medical care of older people . The society acts to represent the needs of its members and the wider community in a bid to constantly review and improve the care of the older people in Australia and New Zealand. Its major functions are around education, policy development and review, and political advocacy.
