The Shire of Goomalling Strategic Community Plan (2013) describes the community's long term priorities and the key activities the Shire will focus on to achieve the community aspirations. The Strategic Community Plan presents five areas of focus (Social, Economic, Natural Environment, Built Environment and Civic Leadership). One of the strategies under the Social section states to 'create an environment that provides for a caring and healthy community' and further goes on to identify the need to provide services for aged persons and monitor demand for independent living units.

The Shire of Goomalling Corporate Business Plan (2013) translates the community aspirations outlined in the Strategic Community Plan into an implementable work program. The Corporate Business Plan identifies several aspects related to ensuring an age friendly community including to facilitate provision of services for aged persons and to monitor local community demand for additional independent living units.

The Disability Access and Inclusion Plan (DAIP) is required under The Disability Services Act 1993 with the aim of planning and implementing improvements across seven outcome areas. These plans benefit people with disability, older people, young parents and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The Shire of Goomalling DAIP identifies a range of access improvement opportunities that will have a particular benefit to older people in the community. Some of these actions are very closely related or a duplicate of the priority actions identified within this Plan. This correlation reinforces the importance of this Plan and the broader community outcomes beyond older people.

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