The overall aim of this report was to provide evidence-based suggestions for quality and safety indicators to routinely monitor the care provided to older Australians accessing aged care services. The report has two main parts:

Part 1 identifies quality and safety indicators currently used to monitor quality of care in aged care sectors nationally and internationally at the population level.

Part 2 examines the performance of Australian aged care facilities and home care providers against indicators developed by other national and international quality and safety monitoring systems. The identified indicators from Part 1 were summarised based on their potential to be analysed and likelihood of obtaining meaningful comparisons using existing data integrated from the health and aged care sectors in Australia. Specifically, indicators that could be replicated or those that could be adapted using similar / comparable variables (proxy measures) were included in Part 2.