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released: 30 May 2002 author: AIHW media release

Entry Period for Residential Aged Care provides a study at both the bivaruate and multivariate levels of the elapsed time between an aged care assessment being undertaken to determine eligibility for residential aged care services and actual entry to residential aged care.The report examines and rejects the evidence for using entry period as a proxy for waiting time, and by implication, as a measure of the accessibility of residential aged care services.The report will be of particular interest to aged care service providers, policy makers and those responsible for planning aged care services, as well as researchers interested in the aged care field.

ISSN 1325-6025; ISBN 978 1 74024 184 7; Cat. no. AGE 24; 159pp.; Internet only

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (229K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • List of appendix tables
    • Acknowledgements
    • Executive summary (73K PDF)
    • Background
    • Project aims
    • Conclusions
    • Main findings
  • Sections
    • Section 1 (48K PDF)
      Background and introduction
    • Section 2 (104K PDF)
      Methodology
      1. 2.1 Data sources
      2. 2.2 Variables and scales
      3. 2.3 The nature of the dependent variable
    • Section 3 (146K PDF)
      Variations in entry period with resident characteristics
      1. 3.1 RCS category
      2. 3.2 Age
      3. 3.3 Sex
      4. 3.4 Marital status
      5. 3.5 Living arrangements
      6. 3.6 Concessional status
      7. 3.7 Use of respite
      8. 3.8 Use of care packages
      9. 3.9 Summary
    • Section 4 (153K PDF)
      Variations in entry period with service characteristics
      1. 4.1 State and Territory differences
      2. 4.2 Low versus high care services
      3. 4.3 Low versus high residential care provison ratios
      4. 4.4 Location of ACAT assessment
      5. 4.5 Dependency level and location of ACAT assessment
      6. 4.6 Auspice of service
      7. 4.7 Co-located services
      8. 4.8 Region
      9. 4.9 Certification score
      10. 4.10 Summary
    • Section 5 (155K PDF)
      Multivariate models predicting entry period
      1. 5.1 The base model: low and high care residents
      2. 5.2 Alternative versions of the dependent variable
      3. 5.3 The impact of additional variables
      4. 5.4 The minimum model
      5. 5.5 Summary
    • Section 6 (48K PDF)
      The final model
      1. 6.1 Low and high care residents
      2. 6.2 Low care residents
      3. 6.3 High care residents
      4. 6.4 Summary
    • Section 7
      Appendix tables
  • End matter
    • References

Recommended citation

AIHW 2002. Entry period for residential aged care. Aged Care Series 7. Cat. no. AGE 24. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 12 June 2013 <http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442467342>.