Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title page and verso
    • Foreword
    • Contents
  • Sections
    1. General context
      • Australia in context
    2. 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
    3. 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
    4. Wellbeing and productive ageing
      • Older Australians as volunteers
      • Older people's organisations in Australia
      • Healthy ageing
    5. Families and caring
      • Carers
      • Formal and informal care
      • Location of older people with a disability
    6. Retirement, income and housing
      • Australian Age Pension
      • Superannuation in Australia
      • Housing of older Australians
      • Retirement in Australia
    7. Health services used by older Australians
      • Hospital use by older Australians
      • Hospital statistics - diagnoses and procedures
    8. Aged care services
      • Assessment strategies
      • Home and Community Care (HACC) program
      • Care packages and community options
      • Hostels
      • Nursing homes
      • Dependency levels among service users
    9. Aged care system
      • Fitting the pieces together - the Australian system
      • Financing the Australian aged care system
    10. 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