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released: 2 Jun 2000 media release

Provides comprehensive statistical information on Australian nursing homes and hostels. The reports focus on the characteristics of hostel and nursing home residents and the patterns of use of these services (including length of stay, admissions and separations). Reports in this series are particularly useful to aged care service planners, providers of aged care services and researchers in the field.

ISSN 1329 5705; ISBN 978 1 74024 051 2; Cat. no. AGE 16; 99pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Full publication

  • Residential aged care facilities in Australia 1998-99: a statistical overview (261K PDF)

Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (18K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgements
  • Chapters
    • Main features (37K PDF)
    • Data and limitations (14K PDF)
    • Section 1: Population and residential aged care service capacity (32K PDF; 77K XLS)
      Population data in this section are derived from population estimates compiled by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Other data are derived from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care database on approved residential aged care facilities as at 30 June 1999.
    • Section 2: Residents and their characteristics (75K PDF; 184K XLS)
      These tables are based on those residents in residential aged care facilities at 30 June 1999, with the exception of data on pension types, which reports on residents at 30 June 1998. Some basic characteristics of the residents are presented.
    • Section 3: Admissions and separations (42K PDF; 105K XLS)
      These tables refer to admissions to and separations from residential aged care facilities between 1 July 1998 and 30 June 1999. An individual can have more than one admission during the period. Transfers are excluded from the tables in this section.
    • Section 4: Characteristics of newly admitted residents (42K PDF; 97K XLS)
      The tables in this section refer to people who were admitted to residential aged care facilities during the period 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999, with the exception of reports on pension types, which covers the admission period 1 January 1998 to 30 June 1998.
    • Section 5: Resident dependency (38K PDF; 89K XLS)
      The tables in this section describe dependency levels among the residents in residential aged care facilities. Resident dependency levels are based on the Resident Classification Scale which classifies residents into eight categories. Category 1 represents the highest dependency level and category 8 the lowest.
  • End matter (18K PDF)
    • Glossary
    • References

Recommended citation

AIHW 2000. Residential aged care facilities in Australia 1998-99: a statistical overview. Aged Care Statistics Series. Cat. no. AGE 16. Canberra: AIHW.