Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title page and verso
- Foreword
- Contents
- Sections
- General context
- Australia in context
- Demography
- Older Australians: age, sex and living arrangements
- The changing demographic profile: 1976-2016
- Indigenous peoples
- People from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
- International comparisons
- Health and wellbeing of older people
- Life expectancies of older Australians
- Health differentials
- Dementia and older Australians
- Self-rated health among older Australians
- Dependency levels among older Australians
- The nature of dependency among older Australians
- Wellbeing and productive ageing
- Older Australians as volunteers
- Older people's organisations in Australia
- Healthy ageing
- Families and caring
- Carers
- Formal and informal care
- Location of older people with a disability
- Retirement, income and housing
- Australian Age Pension
- Superannuation in Australia
- Housing of older Australians
- Retirement in Australia
- Health services used by older Australians
- Hospital use by older Australians
- Hospital statistics - diagnoses and procedures
- Aged care services
- Assessment strategies
- Home and Community Care (HACC) program
- Care packages and community options
- Hostels
- Nursing homes
- Dependency levels among service users
- Aged care system
- Fitting the pieces together - the Australian system
- Financing the Australian aged care system
- Expenditure trends
- Expenditure on aged care
- Health expenditure on older people in Australia
- Government expenditure on older people in Australia
- Expenditure trends and international comparisons
- 1999 International Year of Older Persons
- General context