What was the 70+ population of Australia at 30 June 2009?
What was the life expectancy of Australian men and women aged 65 in 2007?
What was the number of residential aged care places in Australia at 30 June 2009?
What was the mix of high care and low care permanent residents at 30 June 2009?
How many Australian Government-funded aged care packages were available in the community at 30 June 2008?
What proportion of aged care package recipients had a carer at 30 June 2009?
Where do I find information about accessing aged care services?
What was the 70+ population of Australia at 30 June 2009?
2,048,714 persons (899,832 males and 1,148,882 females).
(Source: ABS. Australian Demographic Statistics Catalogue No. 3101.0, released December 2009)
What was the life expectancy of Australian men and women aged 65
The latest ABS figures at 10 November 2010 give the life expectancy for Australian women aged 65 years at 21.8 years and 18.7 years for Australian men aged 65 years.
(Source: ABS. Life Tables Australia 2006-2009. ABS Catalogue No. 3302.0.55.001 , released 10 November 2010)
What was the number of residential aged care places in Australia at 30 June 2009?
178,290 residential aged care places
(Source: AIHW (2010) Residential aged care in Australia 2008-09: a statistical overview. Aged care statistics series no. 31 Cat. no. AGE 62. Canberra: AIHW).
What was the mix of high care and low care permanent residents at 30 June 2009?
75% of permanent residents were high care and 25% were low care at 30 June 2009
(Source: AIHW (2010) Residential aged care in Australia 2008-09: a statistical overview. Aged care statistics series no. 31 Cat. no. AGE 62. Canberra: AIHW).
How many Australian Government funded aged care packages were available in the community at 30 June 2009?
40,859 Community Aged Care Packages* (CACP) (low-care)
4,478 Extended Aged Care at Home (EACH) packages (high-care)
2,036 Extended Aged Care at Home Dementia (EACH Dementia) packages (high-care)
This makes a total of 47,373 packages
(This figure includes 672 CACPs provided by Multi-Purpose Services and services receiving funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program).
(Source: AIHW (2009) Aged care packages in the community2008-09: A statistical overview. Aged care statistics series no. 30 Cat. no. AGE 61. Canberra: AIHW).
What proportion of aged care package recipients had a carer at 30 June 2009?
88.2% of EACH recipients had a carer at 30 June 2009.
94.8% of EACH Dementia recipients had a carer at 30 June 2009.
(Source: AIHW (2009) Aged care packages in the community2008-09: A statistical overview. Aged care statistics series no. 30 Cat. no. AGE 61. Canberra: AIHW).
Data on the number of CACP recipients with a carer is not routinely collected in Department of Health and Ageing's (DoHA's) Aged and Community Care Management Information System database. In the 2008 CACP census, 58% of CACP recipients had a primary carer. (Source: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing , The 2008 Community Care Census. Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing , Canberra.)
Where do I find information about accessing aged care services?
Agedcare Australia
Commonwealth Carelink Centres
Department of Health and Ageing