Table of contents

  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • General context
    1. Australia in context  
  • Demography
    1. Older Australians: age, sex and living arrangements
    2. The changing demographic profile 1976-2016
    3. Indigenous peoples
    4. People from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds
    5. International comparisons
  • Health and well-being of older people
    1. Life expectancies of older Australians
    2. Health differentials
    3. Dementia and older Australians
    4. Self-rated health among older Australians
    5. Dependency levels among older Australians
    6. The nature of dependency among older Australians 
  • Well-being and productive ageing
    1. Older Australians as volunteers
    2. Older people's organisations in Australia
    3. Older Australians as carers
    4. Healthy ageing
  • Families and caring
    1. Carers
    2. Formal vs informal care
    3. Changing patterns of care (1988-1993) 
  • Retirement, income and housing
    1. Australian age pension
    2. Superannuation in Australia
    3. Housing of older Australians
    4. Retirement in Australia
  • Health services used by older Australians
    1. Hospital use by older Australians
    2. Hospital statistics - diagnoses and procedures 
  • Aged care services
    1. Assessment strategies
    2. The Home and Community Care (HACC) program
    3. Care packages and community options
    4. Hostels
    5. Nursing homes
    6. Dependency levels among service users
  • Aged care system
    1. Fitting the pieces together - the Australian system
    2. Financing the Australian aged care system
    3. Recent policy initiatives 
  • Expenditure trends
    1. Expenditure on aged care
    2. Health expenditure on older people
    3. Expenditure trends and international comparisons