This website presents work relevant to ageing and aged care at the Institute. Most recent reports can be purchased or downloaded through the publications list. Some of the older material referred to may be out-of-print and not available in electronic format. These should be accessible through your library.
The Hospital Dementia Services Project is a three-year project funded by NHMRC that looks at outcomes for people with dementia admitted to hospital. It examines the influence of health care system factors on care outcomes for hospital patients with dementia. Outcomes of interest include hospital admission rates, length of stay in hospital, care outcomes such as falls and complications, discharge rates to residential aged care, dependency levels on entry to residential aged care.
This project is carried out in collaboration with the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre (DCRC). This page lists the project aims and describes the four project streams.
This refers to the care provided to older people by family and friends which has become increasingly important with the shift away from care in residential aged care to care within the community.
Formal care is provided to older people in Australia through a number of government programs. These include residential aged care and community care programs such as: Home and Community Care (HACC); Community Aged Care Packages (CACPs); Extended Aged Care at Home (EACH) Packages; Veteran's Home Care; and assistance provided by Day Therapy Centres (DTCs). The Ageing and Aged Care Unit produces statistics on many of these programs.
Older Australians may receive assistance from one or more of these programs, and increasingly the AIHW is looking at the movement of people through a range of services and aged care programs, and at the receipt of assistance from more than one program at the same time. Statistical linkage can provide valuable information on the concurrent use of, or movement of care recipients between, different types of services or programs without breaching confidentiality or privacy.
A page on AIHW projects investigating links between services and programs is being developed. Material covered will include information on statistical linkage protocols, privacy protection issues, and results of investigations into the linkage of data.
Provision of services to specific groups
Web pages are being developed on the Aging and Aged Care Unit's work which specifically address services to particular groups such as: Indigenous people, culturally diverse people, people living in rural and remote areas, people with a disability, people with dementia, veterans and women. Some of these pages are currently available while others will be added to the website as they are completed.