Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
      • Between 2005 and 2013 the program assisted more than 87,000 people
      • Three in four care recipients had improved functional status
      • More than half of the care recipients returned to live in the community
      • Two-thirds of care recipients living in the community did not enter residential aged care within 12 months
  • Body section
    • Introduction
      • About the Transition Care Program
      • Timeframes and key concepts
      • About this report
      • Data and methods
    • 1 Transition care services and provision
      • Overview of Transition Care Program activity
      • Service outlets
      • Service provision
      • Occupancy
      • Care days provided
      • Episodes of care
      • Periods of care
    • 2 Characteristics of recipients
      • Personal demographics
      • Cultural and linguistic diversity
      • Indigenous status
    • 3 Functional change
      • Overview
      • Trends
      • Size of the change in MBI score
      • Location of service provider
      • Service provision setting
      • Age and sex
      • Amount of transition care service provision
      • Length of initial hospital stay
    • 4 Discharge destination
      • Overview
      • State and territory
      • Level of functioning at admission
      • Functional improvement
      • Length of initial hospital stay
      • Amount of transition care service provision
      • Service provision setting
      • Care recipient characteristics
    • 5 Admission to residential aged care
      • Movement to residential aged care
      • Care recipients living in the community: admission to residential aged care
    • Discussion
      • Summary of analysis and main findings
      • Limitations and areas for development
  • End matter
    • Appendix A: Additional tables
    • Appendix B: Data Quality Statement
      • Data Quality Statement: AIHW National Aged Care Data Clearinghouse
    • Glossary
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Related publications