WHO WE ARE
The Aged Care Association Australia is a professional, national industry association for providers of quality residential and community aged care services.

A federated peak body, ACAA is the only organisation that represents care providers from the private and voluntary sectors on a national basis.

ACAA provides a truly representative voice for the residential care industry to the Commonwealth and State governments, all associated agencies and professional bodies, via a structure of autonomous state association, and a national presence in Canberra.

ACAA provides members with a range of national and local services and benefits.

OUR VISION
ACAA strives for, and is committed to, excellence in residential care within a commercially viable environment.

OUR MISSION
Our Mission is to ensure that Australia achieves and maintains an efficient and effective world-class residential care industry for all its peoples, through:

• the development and presentation to governments and the community, of achievable and cost-effective aged care policies;
• a forum for members and their State constituencies for debate and resolution of issues impacting upon aged care service provision; and
• representation of members and their State consituencies to government, stakeholders, and others interested in the Australian aged care industry.

OUR GOALS
The Vision and Mission of ACAA will be delivered through a focus on goals and outcomes, including strategic direction and policy planning, partnerships with members, stakeholders and the community, and the fostering of research.

Our Goals are:

• An appropriate commercial and regulatory framework
  Ensuring system structures allow residential care service providers to achieve a viable commercial return consistent with market forces and independent of ownership structure
• An appropriate residential care funding scheme
  Ensuring the funding scheme is based on sound commercial practices, standard accounting practices, and equal treatment of all aged care service providers.
• Longer-term strategies
  Creating strategic direction and longer-term strategies for the development of the broader residential care industry.
• A consensus national policy on aged care
  Encouraging and facilitating national policy that is agreed by industry and all political parties.
• An enhanced image of the Association and the Residential Care Industry
  Forging a progressive approach to industry issues, and expanding and improving communications with Government and other industry stakeholders.
• Research
  Developing strong working relationships with Government, policitical parties universities with an interest and focus on aged care issues, and other stakeholder organisations, to research issues affecting members' interests, and developing a relevant information base on which policy decisions can be made.
• Outcomes that meet Objectives
  Ongoing critical assessment of Association performance using indicators that reflect policy development, and effective representation of members' interests to Government and other stakeholders.