The Quality Standards Resource Centre helps extend understanding of the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, which take effect from 1 November 2025. The Resource Centre will be updated to reflect key changes made to the draft strengthened Standards. You can search for resources by using keywords, or filtering by standard, outcome, audience and theme. Before using the Resource Centre, please read the terms of use.
Free aged care translation service
This resource provides information on a free translation and interpreting service funded by the government for aged care providers. It supports effective communication with older people from diverse backgrounds, offering language translation, sign language, and captioning services to enhance accessibility and inclusivity in aged care.
This resource may refer to information that will be updated from 1 November 2025 to align with the new Aged Care Act and Quality Standards.
Handbook of tools to support medicine management in multimorbidity and polypharmacy
This handbook provides tools to support medicine management in multimorbidity and polypharmacy. The Department of Health and Aged Care commissioned the University of South Australia to develop the handbook.
This resource may refer to information that will be updated from 1 November 2025 to align with the new Aged Care Act and Quality Standards.
Provider Governance Policy
Under the new Act, registered providers will need to meet certain governance obligations.
Our Provider Governance Policy outlines our expectations of providers and guiding principles of good governance. It includes:
- definitions and principles of good governance
- provider governance obligations
- how we collect provider governance information
- how we respond to provider governance risks.
Provider Governance Policy (PDF 2.07 MB)
