Older Australia Resources

We are getting older

• View AIHW's data on older Australia
• Read about digital behaviours of older Australians
• Aged Care Quality Standards - Standard 2 recognises the needs for initial and ongoing assessment done in partnership with the person. For more about this see the Standards Summary: Ongoing assessment and planning with consumers.

Recognising changes

• SPICT4ALL (299kb pdf) is a simpler version of the trustworthy SPICT (299kb pdf) tool that health and care professionals use to identify people who might benefit from better supportive and palliative care. This helps people to think ahead and to plan future care.
• The question builder available on healthdirect can help you plan what you need to ask your GP when you both want to explore what is causing any change and have a conversation about the future

Advance care planning

• Advance care planning guide (select State or Territory of interest) from Advance Care Planning Australia website
• Palliative Care Australia hosts general information and the Dying to Talk Discussion Kit
• Planning Ahead video: a GP, former career and a consumer advocate talk about why future planning and advance care planning is helpful.
• End of Life Law provides information about Australian laws relating to death, dying and decision-making at the end of life
• Dementia Australia provides information on planning ahead

Understanding death and dying

• From Age UK, Let's talk about death and dying video and a booklet that can be downloaded (1.16MB pdf) and printed to be read later.
• carerhelp has multiple useful resources especially in the Death and Dying section of the Carer Library

Dementia

• Dementia Australia has information in different languages and resources for diverse population groups.
• The Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre has published a consumer guide on dementia (745kb pdf) to provide guidance to  anyone who has signs and symptoms of dementia, has been diagnosed with dementia or is close to someone who may or does have dementia.
• Read Caring for someone living with dementia on myagedcare website

Grieving

• Visit the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement website
• View CarerHelp’s Grief and life after caring pathway
• Read RePADD's Grief and Loss for Families booklet (8.66MB pdf)

Caring and aged care

• Visit the Carer Gateway website
• Visit the CarerHelp website
• Visit the MyAged Care website

Thinking about aged care

• Visit the MyAged Care website
• Read information about aged care costs from Services Australia

Planning for the future

• Visit Advance Care Planning Australia website
• Read COTA WA's Goodbye Guide (8.28MB pdf)

Residential aged care

• 10 Questions to Ask - written by professionals with experience in aged care, 10 Questions to Ask is a series of leaflets to help people choose a suitable residential aged care facility.

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