5 Ways of Reablement
Reablement isn’t extra work, it’s how we support people to do more for themselves. Learn about 5 simple strategies you can use to build more independence for your client.
Health and aged care organisations
Australia’s ageing population is reshaping what support looks like across health and aged care, and organisations are already leading much of this change.
Building a shared approach
As more people live longer and want to stay independent, connected, and at home for as long as possible, wellness and reablement approaches are becoming central to everyday practice.
This page brings together professional development opportunities and reference materials designed to strengthen the work already happening across the sector. These resources reflect a shared commitment to supporting capability, confidence, and quality of life, and to ensuring older people can keep doing what matters to them.
Embedding wellness and reablement
This collection brings together practical tools and reference materials to help organisations integrate wellness and reablement into their work.
Keep Able on the Go app
On the Go is practical reablement knowledge in your pocket. Quick, simple and always available.
The Reablement Podcast
Discover how reablement transforms lives in aged care through real stories and professional insights. In this podcast series from Keep Able, industry experts, support workers, and people with lived experience share how simple, person-led approaches can help older people in Australia stay independent, active, and connected.
Research and evidence
A growing body of research is helping shape how organisations across Australia understand and support healthy ageing, wellness, and reablement. This section brings together evidence, insights, and codesigned studies from iLA’s initiatives that reflect the experiences of older people, communities, and the sector. These resources offer practical perspectives on what supports capability, confidence, and connection as people age, and can be used to inform professional development, service design, and everyday practice.
LiveUp Better Practice Guide for Culturally Safe Information About Assistive Products
This guide outlines nine principles developed with First Nations communities to help ensure guide the delivery of culturally safe, strengthsbased, and locally relevant information that supports older First Nations people to access assistive products in ways that align with their values, experiences, and wellbeing.
Healthy Ageing Report
Led by AAATE and GAATO as part of the SEURO Project, this International Think Tank brought together global experts to explore how older people and their care networks can better adopt and benefit from tech-enabled assistive solutions.
Positioning paper
The National Healthy Ageing Day Positioning Paper highlights why healthy ageing approaches are essential for supporting capability and independence and sets the context for a national focus on helping people stay stronger for longer.