Table of contents
- List of Tables
- List of Appendix Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Project brief
- Background and outline of literature review
- 2 Population ageing in Australia
- Some demographic features of Australia's population
- Projected growth in population
- Trends in population ageing
- 3 Population ageing, morbidity and disability
- 3.1 Mortality, morbidity and disability
- 3.2 Population ageing and prevalence of people with a disability
- 4 Implications of population ageing
- 4.1 Impact on government health and welfare expenditures
- 4.2 Impact on government expenditures in aged care and disability services
- 4.3 Impact on demand for disability support services
- 4.4 Impact on residential aged care services
- 4.5 Issues concerning the age dependency ratio
- 5 Trends in informal care
- 5.1 Impact of population growth and population ageing on informal care
- 5.2 Other factors affecting changes in informal care
- 5.3 Trends in community living among people with a disability
- 5.4 Impact of caring role on informal carers
- 5.5 Support needs for carers
- 6 Ageing clients of disability and aged care services and their service usage pattern
- 6.1 Disability services
- 6.2 Aged care services
- 7 Individual ageing of people with an early onset of disability
- 7.1 Early start of individual ageing
- 7.2 Decline in mortality and increase in life expectancy
- 7.3 Health conditions and major illnesses and diseases related to ageing: relationship to disability
- 7.4 Trends in incidence and prevalence of congenital malformations
- 8 Needs of ageing people with a disability
- 8.1 Needs common to the general ageing population
- 8.2 Special characteristics of older people with an early onset disability
- 8.3 Special needs of older people with an early onset disability
- 8.4 Factors contributing to restricted access to services
- 9 Existing problems and emerging services needs
- 9.1 General issues concerning the needs for appropriate services
- 9.2 Service gaps and needs for new services
- 9.3 Needs for service responses in some key service areas
- 9.4 Differences and similarities of the current disability and aged care service systems
- 10 Emerging planning and service models
- 10.1 New South Wales
- 10.2 Victoria
- 10.3 Western Australia
- 10.4 South Australia
- 10.5 Tasmania
- 10.6 Australian Capital Territory
- References
- Appendix
- Appendix Tables