New Aged Care Act resources for aged care assessors

General Aged Care Act 2024 information

The Aged Care Act 2024 plain language fact sheet is available in 6 languages, and Easy Read. It gives a summary of each chapter of the new Act.

Statement of Rights

This Statement of Rights plain language fact sheet is available in 6 languages and Easy Read. It provides a summary of the rights older people have when accessing aged care services.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Fact sheet for Assessors – Ability to capture client’s preference for First Nations Assessment Organisation.

Single Assessment

The Single Assessment System will simplify and improve aged care assessments:

• watch a presentation recording on the training overview and MAClearning updates, download the presentation slides
• read the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT) user guide to understand what you must consider and record when conducting home support assessments and comprehensive assessments
• review the process overview diagram to understand the steps to use the Integrated Assessment Tool and get guidance.

Support at Home

The Support at Home program will start from 1 July 2025 read the handbook for the design and arrangements of core components.