Health services used by younger people living in residential aged care
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2024) Health services used by younger people living in residential aged care, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 27 October 2024. doi:10.25816/bfnr-ba31
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2024). Health services used by younger people living in residential aged care. Canberra: AIHW. doi:10.25816/bfnr-ba31
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Health services used by younger people living in residential aged care. AIHW, 2024. doi:10.25816/bfnr-ba31
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Health services used by younger people living in residential aged care. Canberra: AIHW; 2024. doi:10.25816/bfnr-ba31
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2024, Health services used by younger people living in residential aged care, AIHW, Canberra. doi:10.25816/bfnr-ba31
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The aged care system is designed to support the needs of older Australians and is generally considered an unacceptable setting for younger people (aged under 65) to live. Despite this, many younger Australians live in permanent residential aged care.
This report describes younger people’s use of health services while living in residential aged care during 2020–21, using linked data in the National Integrated Health Services Information (NIHSI). Common service patterns in primary care, acute care and dispensed prescriptions are covered. Future work by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) will focus on younger people in residential aged care’s use of disability services.
- ISBN: 978-1-923085-80-0
- DOI: 10.25816/bfnr-ba31
- Cat. no: AGE 113
- Pages: 20
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5,600 people aged under 65 lived in residential aged care at some stage in 2020–21
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Younger people living in residential aged care had on average 25 general practitioner attendances in 2020–21
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In 2020–21, 4 in 10 younger people living in residential aged care were prescribed antipsychotics
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Almost 2 in 5 younger people visited an emergency department while living in residential aged care in 2020–21