| ABS |
Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ACAR |
Aged Care Approvals Round |
| ACAT |
Aged Care Assessment Team |
| ACEBAC |
Australian Centre for Evidence
Based Aged Care |
| ACFA |
Aged Care Financing Authority |
| ACFI |
Aged Care Funding Instrument |
| ACIWAG |
Aged Care Illawarra Action
Group |
| Act |
Aged Care Act
1997 (Cth) |
| ACTU |
Australian Council of Trade
Unions |
| ACWF |
Aged Care Workforce Fund |
| AHMA |
Australian Health Ministers'
Advisory Council |
| AHP |
Allied health professional |
| AIHW |
Australian Institute of Health
and Welfare |
| AiN |
Assistant in Nursing |
| ALRC |
Australian Law Reform
Commission |
| AMA |
Australian Medical Association |
| ANAO |
Australian National Audit
Office |
| ANMAC |
Australian Nursing and
Midwifery Accreditation Council |
| ANMF |
Australian Nursing and
Midwifery Federation |
| AQF |
Australian Qualifications
Framework |
| ASQA |
Australian Skills Quality
Authority |
| ATSI |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander |
| CALD |
culturally and linguistically
diverse |
| CDC |
consumer directed care |
| CHSP |
Commonwealth Home Support
Programme |
| CN |
Clinical Nurse |
| COAG |
Council of Australian
Governments |
| COTA |
Council on the Ageing |
| CPD |
Continuing professional
development |
| ECCV |
Ethnic Communities Council of
Victoria |
| EEC |
Senate Education and Employment
References Committee |
| EEN |
Endorsed Enrolled Nurse |
| EN |
Enrolled Nurse |
| FECCA |
Federation of Ethnic
Communities’ Councils of Australia |
| GNARTN |
Greater Northern Australia
Regional Training Network |
| GP |
General practitioner |
| HACC |
Home and Community Care
programme |
| HARG |
Health Ageing Research Group,
La Trobe University |
| HCPP |
Home Care Packages Program |
| LASA |
Leading Age Services Australia |
| LGANT |
Local Government Association of
the Northern Territory |
| LGBTI |
Lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and/or intersex people |
| MCCI |
Multicultural Communities
Council of Illawarra |
| MPS |
Multi-Purpose Services program |
| NACA |
National Aged Care Alliance |
| NACWCS |
National Aged Care Workforce
Census and Survey |
| NCC |
National Code of Conduct for
health care workers |
| NDIA |
National Disability Insurance
Agency |
| NDIS |
National Disability Insurance
Scheme |
| NFAW |
National Foundation for
Australian Women |
| NILS |
National Institute of Labour
Studies |
| NP |
Nurse Practitioner |
| NRAS |
National Registration and
Accreditation Scheme for health practitioners |
| PAYG |
Pay as you go |
| PCA |
Personal care attendant |
| PCW |
Personal care worker |
| RACF |
Residential aged care
facilities |
| RACGP |
Royal Australian College of
General Practitioners |
| RN |
Registered nurse |
| RTO |
Registered Training
Organisation |
| VET |
Vocational and Education
Training |