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
- Introduction (29K PDF)
- Project brief
- Background and outline of the report
- Population ageing in Australia (69K PDF)
- Some demographic features of Australia's population
- Projected growth in population
- Trends in population ageing
- Population ageing, morbidity and disability (55K PDF)
- Mortality, morbidity and disability
- Population ageing and prevalence of people with a disability
- 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
- 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
- Ageing clients of disability and aged care services and their service usage pattern (57K PDF)
- Disability services
- Aged care services
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Emerging planning and service models (48K PDF)
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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