The Joanna Briggs Institute Aged Care Unit aims to enhance the quality of clinical care in aged care across Australia. It does this by producing high quality, reliable, evidence based information specific to the aged care sector and through the delivery of programs to support and enhance the use of this information in practice.

The Joanna Briggs Aged Care Unit is now jointly operated by the Joanna Briggs Institute and the Aged Care Quality Association (ACQA).

The Aged Care Unit supports the Institute’s primary aim, which is to promote the synthesis, dissemination and uptake of evidence in aged care and to create standards in practice across the sector nationally that are built upon the best available evidence. In addition to this activity, The Joanna Briggs Institute Aged Care Unit also engages in complementary research that investigates how evidence can be implemented successfully in the aged care setting and identifying gaps between current practice and standards of practice.

The relationship with ACQA demonstrates the link between the Aged Care Accreditation Standards and Expected Outcomes with clinical evidence based practice.