Older Australia Resources

• View AIHW’s data on older Australia.
• Read about digital behaviours of older Australians.
• Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards – Standard 3 recognises the needs for initial and ongoing assessment done in partnership with the person. For more about this see Standards Outcome 3.1: Assessment and planning.

Recognising changes

• SPICT-4ALL (571kb pdf) is a simpler version of the trustworthy SPICT (571kb 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

• Record your choices (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 carer 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.
• 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 Grief Australia website.
• View CarerHelp’s Grief and life after caring pathway.
• Read RePADD’s Grief and Loss for Families booklet (4.46MB 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.