Contents
Foreword
General context 1. Australia in context
Demography 2. Older Australians: age, sex and living arrangements

3. The changing demographic profile 1976 - 2016

4. Indigenous peoples

5. People from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds

6. International comparisons
Health and well-being of older people 7. Life expectancies of older Australians

8. Health differentials

9. Dementia and older Australians

10. Self-rated health among older Australians

11. Dependency levels among older Australians

12. The nature of dependency among older Australians
Well-being and productive ageing 13. Older Australians as volunteers

14. Older people's organisations in Australia

15. Older Australians as carers

16. Healthy ageing
Families and caring 17. Carers

18. Formal vs informal care

19. Changing patterns of care (1988 - 1993)
Retirement, income and housing 20. Australian age pension

21. Superannuation in Australia

22. Housing of older Australians

23. Retirement in Australia
Health services used by older Australians 24. Hospital use by older Australians

25. Hospital statistics - diagnoses and procedures
Aged care services 26. Assessment strategies

27. The Home and Community Care (HACC) program

28. Care packages and community options

29. Hostels

30. Nursing homes

31. Dependency levels among service users
Aged care system 32. Fitting the pieces together - the Australian system

33. Financing the Australian aged care system

34. Recent policy initiatives
Expenditure trends 35. Expenditure on aged care

36. Health expenditure on older people

37. Expenditure trends and international comparisons