Residential Aged Care Facilities in Australia 1998-99 - A Statistical Overview
Full publication (261K PDF)
- 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)