Quality Aged Care Action Group (QACAG)

We are a grass roots community action group with a growing membership across Australia. We lobby for high quality aged care in all settings, including residential and home care.

We are an independent voice for older people and their advocates and our membership does not include aged care providers or their representatives.

We believe quality aged care is intrinsically linked to the provision of safe staffing, including good numbers of well-skilled and educated registered nurses, enrolled nurses, and assistants in nursing/personal care workers. We also believe it is vital that people caring for their loved ones in their own home have the support to enable people to remain at home for as long as possible.

The provision of inclusive and culturally appropriate care is at the heart of our advocacy work. We recognise First Nations Peoples and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) older people and their communities, as well as LGBTQIA+ communities - all of whom are particularly disadvantaged within the aged care system.