Website Aged Care Justice
Our objective is to improve the welfare of aged care residents and support the delivery of quality aged care services. Information on aged care rights is critical in receiving, negotiating, promoting and defending quality care.
Aged Care Justice has created a series of Fact Sheets on the topic of restrictive practices in aged care settings to promote an understanding of acceptable practices regarding physical, medical and environmental restraint. If you would like further information click here.
In 2023 we will be rolling out further aged care legal rights educational material. The proposed topics are listed below, and we invite you to provide input on the aged care rights information of interest to your community, so we can tailor information as required. Please advise if you would like to be on the distribution list for the fact sheet topics listed below.
Please contact us by email at info@agedcarejustice.org.au or call Katrina Ryan on 0477 359 029.
2023 List of Fact Sheets – DOWNLOAD HERE
The Residential Aged Care Agreement
1. Understanding your rights under your aged care Resident Agreement.
2. Tips for negotiating your Resident Agreement.
3. What standard of care is included under your Resident Agreement?
4. What can you do when there is a breach of your Resident Agreement, and what are the remedies?
The Home Care Agreement
1. Understanding your rights and responsibilities under the Home Care Agreement.
2. Tips for negotiating your Home Care Agreement.
3. What standard of care must your provider deliver under your Home Care Agreement?
4. What does a breach of your Home Care Agreement look like and what remedies are you entitled to?
Elder Rights in Aged Care
1. What is neglect in an aged care setting and what can you do about it?
2. What is an ‘unreasonable use of force’ in an aged care setting and what your rights?
3. What are your decision-making powers once a Power of Attorney or Guardian is in place?
4. Can an aged care provider stop someone from visiting an aged care resident?
5. Can a person receiving aged care, or their family, access health records of the older person?
6. Who determines if an older person has the capacity to make their own decisions?
Aged Care Justice is a registered charity supporting older Australians living in residential aged care or receiving home care, by providing access to legal services, educational material on aged care rights and lobbying for sector reform.
Our organisation refers complainants to lawyers on our national legal referral panel so they can receive an initial free legal consultation and representation, if required. Pro bono may be arranged for those who qualify.
ACJ’s goals are to ensure Australians receive appropriate aged care services, understand their legal rights and have access to justice.
Patron: The Hon Tony Pagone AM KC, Victorian Bar, Former Judge and Aged Care Royal Commissioner
President: Dr Bryan Keon-Cohen AM KC, Victorian Bar (retired)
Vice President: Sue Williamson, Partner, Holding Redlich, Solicitors
Aged Care Justice is a not-for-profit incorporated body and a DGR
