Disability and Ageing

Full publication (920K PDF)

• Preliminary material (118K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Summary (85K PDF; HTML)
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
• Sections
  1. Introduction (29K PDF)
     • Project brief
     • Background and outline of the report
  2. Population ageing in Australia (69K PDF)
     • Some demographic features of Australia's population
     • Projected growth in population
     • Trends in population ageing
  3. Population ageing, morbidity and disability (55K PDF)
     • Mortality, morbidity and disability
     • Population ageing and prevalence of people with a disability
  4. Implications of population ageing (58K PDF)
     • Impact on government health and welfare expenditures
     • Impact on government expenditures in aged care and disability services
     • Impact on demand for disability support services
     • Impact on residential aged care services
     • Issues concerning the age dependency ratio
  5. Trends in informal care (62K PDF)
     • Impact of population growth and population ageing on informal care
     • Other factors affecting changes in informal care
     • Trends in community living among people with a disability
     • Impact of caring role on informal carers
     • Support needs for carers
  6. Ageing clients of disability and aged care services and their service usage pattern (57K PDF)
     • Disability services
     • Aged care services
  7. Individual ageing of people with an early onset of disability (37K PDF)
     • Early start of individual ageing
     • Decline in mortality and increase in life expectancy
     • Health conditions and major illnesses and diseases related to ageing: relationship to disability
     • Trends in incidence and prevalence of congenital malformations
  8. Needs of ageing people with a disability (33K PDF)
     • Needs common to the general ageing population
     • Special situations of older people with an early onset disability
     • Special needs of older people with an early onset disability
     • Factors contributing to restricted access to services
  9. Existing services models: some issues (66K PDF)
     • General issues concerning the need for appropriate services
     • Service gaps and needs for new services
     • Need for service responses in some key service areas
     • Differences and similarities of the current disability and aged care service systems
  10. Emerging planning and service models (48K PDF)
      • New South Wales
      • Victoria
      • Western Australia
      • South Australia
      • Tasmania
      • Australian Capital Territory
  11. Overview of relevant data sources (60K PDF)
      • ABS population surveys of relevance to disability
      • Administrative data relating to services provided for people with a disability
      • Data limitations and key data sources for analysis
  12. Population ageing and prevalence of disability (82K PDF)
      • Data sources for comparisons of the four surveys
      • Comparison of age-standardised prevalence estimates
      • Changes in reported number of people with disability
      • Effects of population change on disability prevalence
      • Summary
  13. Ageing of people with a disability (64K PDF)
      • Increase in the proportion of people aged 65 years and over among people with a disability
      • Ageing of aged people with a disability
      • Recent increase in the proportions of people with a disability aged under 65 years
      • Discussion
  14. People ageing with an early onset disability (74K PDF)
      • Age at onset of disability
      • Distribution of age at onset by current age
      • Age at onset of disability by main condition
      • Summary
  15. Ageing, need for assistance and providers of assistance (179K PDF)
      • ABS survey data on need for assistance
      • Need for assistance and main provider of assistance
      • Changes in need for assistance and main provider of assistance between 1993 and 1998
      • Need for assistance and main source of assistance for people ageing with a disability
      • Summary of findings
  16. Ageing, informal care and carers (90K PDF)
      • Disability survey data on carers
      • Ageing and profile of informal carers
      • Need for and receipt of assistance
      • Effects of the caring role on carers
      • Trends in de-institutionalisation
      • Summary
  17. Ageing and trends in service use (133K PDF)
      • Methods and underlying assumptions
      • Growth estimates of severe or profound core activity restriction
      • Trends in service use
      • Summary and discussion
  18. Implications for support services (100K PDF)
      • Population ageing in Australia
      • Impact of population ageing on disability prevalence
      • Impact of population ageing on government health and welfare expenditure
      • Trends in informal care
      • Ageing, need for assistance and providers of assistance
      • Service use pattern
      • Discussion of support service implications
  19. Conclusion (101K PDF)
      • Implications of overall demographic change in the Australian population
      • Understanding the 'grey' areas in services for ageing people with a disability
      • Implications for the nature of services
      • Planning the evolution of support services
• End matter (170K PDF)
  • References
  • Appendix tables

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