Summary
This overview chapter provides a summary of the context and findings of this evaluation. It discusses each evaluation question and provides overall comments on the strengths of the supplementation model of aged care for people ageing with a disability and some unresolved issues at the interface of aged care and disability support programs. The report itself then commences with Chapter 1, which contains a discussion of the origins of the Innovative Pool Disability Aged Care Interface Pilot, followed by a brief survey of the literature on key issues related to ageing in people with disabilities. Pilot participants are profiled in Chapter 2. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 address the three key evaluation questions in turn, using summaries of data and information collected during the evaluation. Summary results from the Care Experience Survey are presented in Chapter 6 to provide feedback from staff in the participating accommodation services on the needs of clients and the Pilot experience.
Preliminary material (301K PDF): List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Overview of the evaluation
1. Background and context (286K PDF)
- Origins of the Innovative Pool Disability Aged Care Interface Pilot
- Service issues for the target group
- Targeting people who need aged care
- Overview of Pilot projects
- Evaluation methods, limitations and coverage
2. A profile of Pilot clients (324K PDF)
- Socio-demographic snapshot
- Core activity limitations
- Activities of daily living measures
- Participation measures
- Corollary: clients with intellectual disability
3. New care choices (436K PDF)
- Far North Coast Disability and Aged Care Consortium
- Central West People with a Disability who are Ageing
- Northern Sydney Disability Aged Care Pilot
- MS Changing Needs
- Interlink Flexible Aged Care Packages
- Disability and Ageing Lifestyle Project
- Disability Aged Care Service
- Ageing In Place
- Cumberland Prospect Disability Aged Care Pilot
- Case studies
- Main findings
4. Living longer in the community (216K PDF)
- Short-term accommodation outcomes
- Levels of additional support for ageing in place
- Main findings
5. Cost of Pilot services
- Comparative cost of Pilot services
- Expenditure patterns
- Main findings
6. Care Experience Survey (301K PDF)
- Summary of results
- Survey aims, methodology and limitations
- Response rates
- Respondent identity
- Thematic framework
- Survey results
7. Conclusion
- Benefits of the Pilot to individuals and service delivery systems
- Identified weaknesses of the Pilot model
- Summation
Appendix A: Overall client profiles
Appendix B: Project profiles
Appendix C: Services and expenditure tables
End matter (378K PDF): References