Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency Ltd

Our response is based on our knowledge and understanding of like arrangements in Australia and in other countries and over ten tears experience of the aged care accreditation scheme in Australia as the company appointed as the accreditation body under the Aged Care Act 1997. It is also based on a body of knowledge built through feedback surveys from approved providers and their staff, thousands of visits to nursing homes in the ten year period, over 100,000 interviews with residents and their relatives in the two years to 30 June 2010, the background knowledge of our registered aged care quality assessor workforce (many of which currently work in or have prior experience in the delivery of services to the aged) and research into other systems of accreditation (with the increasing number in care arrangements variously known as residential aged care, social care or long term care auspiced by government).