Each of Australia’s states and territories has a number of policies and services for older and infirm citizens. Below are the links to a selection of official policies and services in each jurisdiction.
Queensland
- Aged care
- Design guidelines for Queensland residential aged care facilities
- Queensland: an age-friendly community
- Legal frameworks for the use of restrictive practices in residential aged care: an analysis of Australian and international jurisdictions (Office of the Public Advocate)
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
- Residential aged care facility placement from hospital
- Policy and plans
- ACT elder abuse prevention program policy
Victoria
- Aged care
- Ageing and aged care
- Policy and initiatives
- Improving care for older people: a policy for health services
- Public sector residential aged care services
- Residential aged care services
Tasmania
- Older persons
- Policies, procedures and guidelines (generic; aged and disabled policies among them)
- Tasmanian carer action plan
- Tasmanian carer policy
- Younger people in residential aged care program
- Tasmanian palliative care policy framework 2017-2021
South Australia
- Aged care assistance
- Getting help at home
- Aged care and retirement housing
- My Aged Care and why it’s changing
Northern Territory
Western Australia
- HACC – Home and community care program
- Home and community care program manual
- Western Australia’s HACC transition
- Changes to Western Australia’s home care services
- Find an aged care health service
Conversation starter
Have you – or anyone you have cared for – experienced issues with State or Territory governments, either in relation to policies or services? What were the consequences of those policy or service issues? Were you able to resolve those issues? How were you supported through this process?
Aged Care: Are we getting it right? 