Aged care packages 
in the community 2006–07

A statistical overview

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Aged care packages 
in the community 2006–07

A statistical overview

August 2008

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2008. Aged care packages in the community 
2006–07: a statistical overview. Aged care statistics series no. 27. Cat. no. AGE 57. Canberra: AIHW.

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Symbols
Key findings
1	Introduction
2	Services and provision
2.1	Packages
2.2	Service outlets
2.3	Occupancy
3 	CACP recipients
3.1	Age and sex distribution
3.2	Younger care recipients (aged under 65 years)
3.3	Birthplace and preferred language
3.4	Usual residence status
3.5	Living arrangements
3.6	‘Special needs’ groups
3.7	Admissions and separations
4 	EACH recipients
4.1	Location
4.2	Age and sex distribution
4.3	Birthplace and preferred language
4.4	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander care recipients
4.5	Living arrangements
4.6	Carer status
4.7	Admissions and separations
5 	EACH Dementia recipients
5.1	Location
5.2	Demographic characteristics
5.3	Carer status
5.4	Admissions and separations
6	Comparative statistics for CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia programs
Appendix 1: Additional tables
Appendix 2: Data sources and limitations
Glossary
References
List of tables
List of figures	121
 
Acknowledgments
This report was compiled by Evon Bowler. Contributions from a number of colleagues are gratefully acknowledged. Penny Allbon, Julie Roediger, Diane Gibson, Ann Peut and Peter Braun from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare provided assistance or critical comments in reviewing the report. 
Thanks are also due to colleagues in the Ageing and Aged Care Division of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing for supplying the data behind this report and for making critical and helpful comments on early drafts.
Finally, thanks to publishing staff who arranged publication of the report.

Abbreviations
ABS		Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACAT		Aged Care Assessment Team	
ACCMIS	Aged and Community Care Management Information System
AIHW		Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
CACP		Community Aged Care Package
CD		Census Collection District
EACH		Extended Aged Care at Home
FDP		financially disadvantaged person 
HACC		Home and Community Care Program

Symbols
—		zero or rounded to zero
. .		not applicable
n.a.		not available
n.p.		not published
<		less than

Key findings
This report presents information on the provision and use of community care packages for the period 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007. Community care packages help people who are eligible for entry into residential aged care to stay in the community, by providing them with help in their own homes. 
Care for people eligible for low-level residential aged care is provided by Community Aged Care Packages (CACPs). There are two types of care packages for people who need high‑level care: Extended Aged Care at Home (EACH) packages, and a similar but more flexible type of EACH package for people with behavioural problems or psychological symptoms associated with dementia (EACH Dementia packages).
Continued growth in community care packages
Community care packages have seen strong growth since 1992, and this continued during 2006–07. Just over 2,600 new CACPs were provided during that year (an increase of 7%) taking the total number of operational packages to nearly 38,000.
High-level community care packages are a smaller and more recent component of the aged care system and are growing rapidly. During 2006–07, almost 1,400 new high-care packages became operational, including 16 in remote areas: 
•	EACH packages grew by 28% (around 720 packages) to 3,300 operational packages.
•	The number of operational EACH Dementia packages more than doubled from 600 to nearly 1,300 places. The first EACH Dementia packages started operating in March 2006. 
By the end of 2006–07, there were 21.8 community care packages for every 1,000 people aged 70 and over. The Australian Government plans to increase the number of packages to 25 care packages per thousand by 2010–11. 
How many people receive help from a community care package?
At 30 June 2007, almost 35,000 people were receiving help from a CACP, almost 3,000 people were getting help from an EACH package and around 870 people from an EACH Dementia package.
However, higher numbers of people received help from these packages over the course of the year: around 50,000 people received a CACP at some time during 2006–07, and around 4,600 people and 1,340 people received help from EACH and EACH Dementia packages, respectively. 
How long do they use them for?
The higher number of people helped during a year reflects the relatively short periods of assistance used by many people. Around half of CACP recipients and three-quarters of EACH recipients used assistance from their package for less than 12 months (52% and 73%). Currently, 40% of separating EACH Dementia recipients had received assistance for less than 3 months. However, the EACH Dementia packages have only been operational for 16 months, and both the numbers of care recipients receiving help from the program, and those leaving the program are relatively small. 
What are their characteristics?
Women make up the majority of care recipients for all three programs, particularly for the CACP program (71%). EACH recipients had the youngest age profile, with 7% of recipients aged less than 65 years and only 53% aged 80 years and over, while CACP recipients had the oldest age profile (65% were 80 years and over).
Where do they go when they leave?
The majority of those leaving a care package did so to enter residential aged care. EACH Dementia recipients were more likely to enter residential care (63%) than CACP recipients (47%) or EACH recipients (43%). A higher proportion of EACH recipients no longer received assistance from their package because they died (37%) than EACH Dementia (22%) or CACP recipients (18%). 

1	Introduction
Community care has been a growing element of aged care for two decades, as a response to the preference of most people who need support to live at home in the community rather than moving to some form of institutional care. Although residential aged care continues to play a vital role in meeting the needs of older Australians, community care is becoming increasingly central to aged care provision.
Most home and community-based services for older people are provided under the auspices of the Home and Community Care (HACC) program. This program is jointly funded by the Australian and state and territory governments. The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing reports annually on the provision of services through HACC, and the results are available on the department’s website at <www.health.gov.au>.
In addition, the Australian Government is the sole funding source for three community care programs for older people who have been evaluated by an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) and found to be eligible for residential aged care. These programs are: 
•	the Community Aged Care Packages (CACPs) program. This is a significant and growing part of aged care provision in the community. It provides support services for older people with complex needs living at home who would otherwise be eligible for admission to low-level residential care 
•	the Extended Aged Care at Home (EACH) program, a small program that delivers care at home equivalent to high-level residential care 
•	the Extended Aged Care at Home Dementia (EACH Dementia) program, which provides the equivalent of high-level residential care in the home to frail older people who experience behaviours of concern and psychological symptoms associated with dementia. This program has been operational for just over 1 year and is still very small.
Aged care services are also provided by Multi-purpose Services and by organisations receiving funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program. 
The distinction between low-level and high-level residential aged care is discussed in a companion volume released annually, entitled Residential aged care in Australia 2006–07 (AIHW 2008).
This report is the ninth annual compilation of national administrative by-product data on CACPs prepared by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). It is the third to include similar reporting for the Australian Government-funded EACH program and the second to include reporting for the EACH Dementia program. In 2007, the title of these annual publications was changed from Community Aged Care Packages in Australia to Aged care packages in the community, to reflect the expanded scope of the publication. 
The report contains a set of tables compiled from the Department of Health and Ageing’s Aged and Community Care Management Information System (ACCMIS), which records administrative data related to the approval of services to care recipients and payment of care subsidies to service providers. The aim of this report is to highlight the characteristics of care recipients, and patterns of service provision in both programs. The data reported provide a summary of:
•	
growth trends over time to 30 June 2007
•	provision of packages at 30 June 2007
•	the number of outlets providing these services throughout Australia
•	sociodemographic characteristics of recipients
•	service provision for ‘special needs’ groups
•	carer support arrangements for EACH and EACH Dementia recipients
•	the number of admissions and separations between 1 July 2006 and 30 June 2007 for each program and
•	state and territory variations.
Restrictions on reporting 
In the past, service-providing outlets have not been required to routinely report information such as the type of assistance received by care recipients, their levels of dependency and carer support. With the exception of information on carer support for EACH and EACH Dementia recipients, this information is still not regularly available on a national basis. Initial information on the care recipient’s living arrangements and carer support status is derived from the care recipient’s ACAT assessment data. However, service providers are expected to report on changes in carer support arrangements on their monthly subsidy claim forms, and these should reflect existing arrangements. For more information on data sources see Appendix 2. 
Aged care services provided by Multi-purpose Services and by organisations receiving funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program are funded for flexible delivery. While the number of approved packages funded in this way is included in tables 2.1 to 2.3 of this report, data is not available for reporting on the characteristics of recipients of these forms of aged care services. 
Other relevant reports
In late 2002, a national census of CACPs and a separate census of EACH packages were done. These collected data about service outlets and care recipients, including demographic information, living and care arrangements, care needs and service provision. This material was published in 2004 (AIHW 2004a , AIHW 2004b).
Collection of data for a 2008 Community Care census occurred between February and April 2008 (see <http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/ageing-communitycare-census-2007.htm>). This census will provide detailed information on recent service provision through the CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia programs as well as the National Respite for Carers Program. 
For further background information on the CACP program as well as earlier data on the use and provision of CACPs, refer to previous editions of this annual report (for example, AIHW 2007a). 
National publications such as the biennial Australia’s welfare 2007 (AIHW 2007b) and Older Australia at a glance (AIHW 2007c) also report on selected aspects of the above programs.
Community care is only one aspect of aged care service provision. The AIHW also publishes reports on the use of residential aged care in Australia (for example, AIHW 2008) and is currently doing research on care pathways in aged care. 
Structure of the report
Section 2 of the report focuses on provision of packages in all three programs, and describes the characteristics of service providers. Section 3 outlines the characteristics of CACP recipients, and patterns of use in the CACP program. A profile of EACH recipients is provided in Section 4, which also outlines patterns of use in this program. EACH Dementia recipients are covered separately in Section 5, while Section 6 compares statistics on the characteristics of the care recipients for the three programs. 
2	Services and provision
2.1	Packages
CACPs were initiated in 1992 as an Australian Government-funded program to provide an alternative to low-level residential aged care for older people living in the community. From 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007, the number of operational packages increased by 2,614 to reach 37,997. Provision of CACPs per 1,000 persons aged 70 years and over increased to 19.4 at 30 June 2007 compared with 18.2 the previous year (Figure 1.1; tables 2.1 and 2.2).
The EACH program began as a pilot in 2000 with 300 clients in 10 areas. In 2002, EACH was established as an ongoing program, complementing CACPs and designed to provide an alternative to high-level residential aged care. At 30 June 2007, there were 3,302 operational EACH packages, an increase of 722 EACH packages over the previous year (Table 2.1).
In 2005, the Australian Government made a commitment to provide 2,000 EACH Dementia packages over 4 years. The first of these EACH Dementia packages was introduced in 2006 with 601 operational EACH Dementia packages available by 30 June 2006, and a further 670 operational packages becoming available by 30 June 2007, bringing the total to 1,271 (Table 2.1). The combined provision of EACH and EACH Dementia packages at 30 June 2007 was 2.3 per 1,000 persons aged 70 years and over (Figure 1.1; Table 2.2).

Figure 2.1: Service provision ratios, aged care packages in the community, 1995–2007
Vertical bar chart showing Per 1,000 70+ on y-axis and year on x-axis. Key shows ‘EACH & EACH Dementia ratio’ and ‘CACP ratio’.
Source: Table A1.

In February 2007, as part of the Securing the future of aged care for Australians initiative, the Australian Government announced that the target for aged care provision would increase from the existing target of 108 operational places and packages per 1,000 persons aged 70 years and over to 113 by 2010–11. The community care component of this target increased from 20 to 25 places per 1,000, with 4 in every 25 community care packages to be high-care packages. This was the first time that the provision targets specified the proportion of high‑care community care packages to be provided. 
The combined operational provision ratio for CACPs, EACH and EACH Dementia packages at 30 June 2007 was 21.8 per 1,000 persons aged 70 years and over (21.3 per 1,000 when including older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples aged 50–69 years) (Table 2.2). 
Of the 37,997 CACPs offered at 30 June 2007, 37,381 CACPs were offered by 1,053 mainstream services throughout Australia. While not all of the 101 Multi-purpose Services and 29 services receiving flexible funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program provided CACPs, 359 packages were provided by Multi-purpose Services and 257 by services receiving flexible funding. Data is available on the number of funded packages but not on care recipient characteristics. Therefore, only tables 2.1 to 2.3 in this section (those pertaining to provision numbers and provision ratios) include CACPs provided by Multi-purpose Services and services receiving flexible funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program. All other CACP statistics in this report include data on packages provided by mainstream services only.
The distribution of CACPs among states and territories generally reflects the distribution of the Australian population. The majority of these packages were in New South Wales and Victoria (33% and 26%, respectively). Queensland had 18% of the packages, followed by South Australia and Western Australia (9% each). The remaining packages were distributed across Tasmania (3%), the Northern Territory (2%) and the Australian Capital Territory (1%) (Table 2.3). The pattern of distribution of both the 3,302 EACH packages offered by 205 services and the 1,271 EACH Dementia packages offered by 111 services at 30 June 2006 was similar to that for CACPs (tables 2.3 and 2.4).
Major cities accounted for 65% of CACPs and inner regional areas for 23%. The distribution of CACPs among outer regional areas, remote and very remote areas was 9%, 2% and 2%, respectively (Table 2.3). Availability of EACH and EACH Dementia packages was also concentrated mainly in major cities (66% and 71%, respectively), with around 20% in inner regional areas and around 10% in outer regional areas. Neither EACH nor EACH Dementia packages are offered in very remote areas, but there has been a significant increase in the availability of these packages in remote areas. At 30 June 2007, there were 24 EACH and 5 EACH Dementia packages in remote areas; all except for 4 EACH places became available during the previous 12 months (Table 2.3). 
The combined provision ratio per 1,000 persons aged 70 years and over was lowest in Queensland at 21.0 and highest in the Northern Territory at 128.7. The higher level of provision in the Northern Territory is a consequence of a comparatively young population profile combined with a relatively large Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population. As a result of their poorer health status, Indigenous Australians need access to community care at younger ages, on average, than do other Australians. If the population figures include Indigenous Australians aged 50–69 years as well as the general population aged 70 years and over, a different picture emerges. For the Northern Territory, the ratio reduces from 128.7 to 64.5, whereas the aggregate Australian ratio only reduces from 21.8 to 21.3 (Table 2.2). 
The provision ratio per 1,000 persons aged 70 years and over was highest in very remote regions (84.0) and remote regions (32.2). The provision ratio was lowest in outer regional areas (18.8), while in inner regional areas and major cities it was 21.1 and 21.9, respectively. (Table 2.2). 
2.2	Service outlets
At 30 June 2007, 1,053 CACP mainstream service outlets were providing 37,381 packages throughout Australia. Nearly three-quarters of outlets (74%) were located in the three largest Australian states, namely New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. The Australian Capital Territory had the smallest share of outlets providing packages (1%) (Table 2.4). 
On average, there were 35 CACPs per outlet. However, the outlet size varied greatly across Australia, with 44% of outlets having between 1 and 20 packages, and 27% having between 21 and 40 packages. Of the 28 largest outlets, each responsible for more than 120 care packages, 14 were located in Victoria, 7 were located in New South Wales, 3 in South Australia, 2 in Western Australia and 1 in Queensland and 1 in the Australian Capital Territory (Table 2.5). 
As expected, CACP outlets operating in remote and very remote areas were small, with 75% of outlets in remote areas and all outlets in very remote areas having 20 packages or less. A considerable proportion of larger outlets with more than 60 packages each were operating mainly in areas of high population density, such as major cities and inner regional areas. With the expansion of the CACP program, the proportion of outlets with 20 or less packages has decreased from 61% in 1999 to 44% in 2007, while the proportion of larger outlets (more than 100 packages) has increased from less than 1% in 1999 to 5% in 2007. Of the 28 outlets with more than 120 packages, all but two were located in major cities (Table 2.6).
The majority of CACP service outlets were operated either by the religious or charitable sector (56%) or were community-based outlets (21%). Of the remainder, 17% were run by state and local governments and 5% by the private (commercial) sector. The charitable and religious sectors operated the majority of outlets in most states (54%–66%), with the exception of the Northern Territory (22%) and Tasmania (44%). In the Northern Territory, local government operated 43% of outlets, while in Tasmania, community-based organisations operated 33% (Table 2.7).
The EACH program is in a relatively early phase of its growth and the EACH Dementia program in its second year of operation. The total number of operational places for both is still small compared with the number of operational CACPs. 
There were 205 EACH service outlets providing 3,302 EACH packages. In the first full year of operation the number of EACH Dementia outlets has doubled to 111 outlets providing 1,271 EACH Dementia packages. The state/territory distribution for providers of these programs is similar to that for CACP service outlets with exception of South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory (tables 2.3 and 2.4). 
On average, there were 16 EACH packages per outlet. The majority of outlets (79%) offered between 1 and 20 packages. There were 33 services (16%) providing between 21 and 40 packages, 10 services providing between 41 and 60 packages and 1 service providing between 61 and 80 EACH packages (Table 2.5). Nearly 58% of services were located in major cities, and 28% in inner regional areas. In 2006–07, the number of remote services increased from 1 to 3 and the number of remote EACH packages from 4 to 24 packages (tables 2.3 and 2.6). 
For EACH Dementia, there was an average of 11 packages per outlet. The majority of outlets (94%) were providing 20 or fewer packages, and 5% were providing 21–40 packages. Only 1 outlet, located in WA, provided more than 40 EACH Dementia packages (Table 2.5).
Over three-quarters of EACH and EACH Dementia service outlets (76% and 80%, respectively) were operated by the religious or charitable sector. Twelve per cent of EACH outlets and 9% of EACH Dementia outlets were run by community-based organisations and 7% were private organisation for both EACH and EACH Dementia programs. Only in Victoria were EACH and EACH Dementia packages provided by state government outlets (Table 2.7).
2.3	Occupancy
The overall average annual occupancy rate for CACPs ranged from 85% in Queensland to 97% in Tasmania. Australia-wide, the occupancy rate was 94%. The occupancy rate was highest in major cities, inner regional and outer regional areas (93%, 93% and 94%, respectively). It was 89% in remote areas and 88% in very remote areas (Table 2.8). 
For the EACH packages, overall average annual occupancy ranged from 78% in Western Australia to 96% in Victoria, with a national occupancy rate of 89%. 
The lower average annual occupancy rates for EACH Dementia packages (59%–85% and 68% nationally) is not surprising, as this program is expanding rapidly and occupancy can be expected to be lower while services are engaging staff and recruiting their initial care recipients. 

Table 2.1: CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, by state/territory(a), 30 June 1992 to 30 June 2007 
	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
CACPs	
1992	68	25	10	12	120	—	—	—	235	
1993	138	82	54	26	150	20	—	—	470	
1994	291	313	253	81	224	43	20	2	1,227	
1995	834	640	443	210	285	98	25	7	2,542	
1996	1,517	1,104	731	383	468	160	47	21	4,431	
1997	2,199	1,369	1,027	538	634	228	84	45	6,124	
1998	3,538	2,314	1,728	822	989	378	168	109	10,046	
1999	4,685	3,323	2,440	1,161	1,258	450	266	170	13,753	
2000(b)	6,337	4,517	3,163	1,571	1,636	584	308	193	18,309	
2001(b)	8,626	5,974	4,155	2,278	2,270	679	336	312	24,630	
2002(b)	9,267	6,571	4,338	2,251	2,460	728	362	448	26,425	
2003(b)	9,628	7,119	4,455	2,375	2,611	810	372	511	27,881	
2004(b)	9,955	7,438	4,626	2,442	2,725	856	391	615	29,048	
2005(b)	10,663	7,959	5,033	2,553	2,841	896	426	602	30,973	
2006(b)	11,935	9,116	5,978	3,094	3,184	973	466	637	35,383	
2007(b)	12,676	9,742	6,644	3,409	3,351	1,023	499	653	37,997	
EACH packages 	
2002	66	—	—	75	—	—	30	—	171	
2003	66	84	—	75	—	—	30	—	255	
2004	249	249	134	75	77	25	30	21	860	
2005	564	463	195	155	155	50	50	41	1,673	
2006	816	720	424	205	230	55	70	60	2,580	
2007	1,083	882	527	292	286	75	87	70	3,302	
EACH Dementia packages	
2006	174	166	115	48	58	15	15	10	601	
2007	439	326	231	76	111	38	30	20	1,271	
						(continued)

Table 2.1 (continued): CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, by state/territory(a), 30 June 1992 to 30 June 2007 
	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
Combined (CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia)	
1992	68	25	10	12	120	—	—	—	235	
1993	138	82	54	26	150	20	—	—	470	
1994	291	313	253	81	224	43	20	2	1,227	
1995	834	640	443	210	285	98	25	7	2,542	
1996	1,517	1,104	731	383	468	160	47	21	4,431	
1997	2,199	1,369	1,027	538	634	228	84	45	6,124	
1998	3,538	2,314	1,728	822	989	378	168	109	10,046	
1999	4,685	3,323	2,440	1,161	1,258	450	266	170	13,753	
2000(b)	6,337	4,517	3,163	1,571	1,636	584	308	193	18,309	
2001(b)	8,626	5,974	4,155	2,278	2,270	679	336	312	24,630	
2002(b)	9,333	6,571	4,338	2,326	2,460	728	392	448	26,596	
2003(b)	9,694	7,203	4,455	2,450	2,611	810	402	511	28,136	
2004(b)	10,204	7,687	4,760	2,517	2,802	881	421	636	29,908	
2005(b)	11,227	8,422	5,228	2,708	2,996	946	476	643	32,646	
2006(b)	12,925	10,002	6,517	3,347	3,472	1,043	551	707	38,564	
2007(b)	 14,198 	 10,950 	 7,402 	 3,777 	 3,748 	 1,136 	 616 	 743 	 42,570 	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.
(b)	CACPs provided by Multi-purpose Services and services receiving flexible funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program are included.

Table 2.2: CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages per 1,000 persons aged 70 years and over, state/territory by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
State/territory	Major 
cities	Inner regional	Outer regional	Remote	Very
 remote	Total 
(70+)	Total (70+ and Indigenous population aged 50–69 years)	
	Ratio	
CACPs	
NSW	18.8	21.1	12.9	15.4	36.8	18.8	18.4	
Vic	21.6	15.0	12.2	15.9	. .	19.4	19.3	
Qld	17.6	18.0	20.7	34.3	54.1	18.8	18.2	
WA	19.3	15.7	22.5	39.2	31.1	19.7	19.0	
SA	18.5	25.6	15.0	15.9	69.7	19.1	18.8	
Tas	. .	22.1	14.7	27.1	51.6	19.9	19.2	
ACT	22.2	—	. .	. .	. .	22.2	21.8	
NT	. .	. .	56.7	95.1	301.4	113.1	56.7	
Australia	19.5	18.8	16.7	30.9	84.0	19.4	19.0	
EACH and EACH Dementia packages	
NSW	2.3	2.2	2.0	—	—	2.3	2.2	
Vic	2.6	1.9	1.8	—	. .	2.4	2.4	
Qld	2.2	2.3	1.9	0.7	—	2.1	2.1	
WA	2.3	1.9	1.9	1.1	—	2.1	2.0	
SA	2.3	2.5	2.4	—	—	2.3	2.2	
Tas	. .	3.1	0.6	—	—	2.2	2.1	
ACT	5.2	—	. .	. .	. .	5.2	5.1	
NT	. .	. .	20.9	15.5	—	15.6	7.8	
Australia	2.4	2.2	2.2	1.3	—	2.3	2.3	
Combined (CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia)	
NSW	21.2	23.3	14.9	15.4	36.8	21.1	20.6	
Vic	24.2	16.9	14.0	15.9	. .	21.8	21.7	
Qld	19.8	20.3	22.6	35.0	54.1	21.0	20.2	
WA	21.6	17.6	24.3	40.3	31.1	21.9	21.0	
SA	20.8	28.1	17.4	15.9	69.7	21.4	21.1	
Tas	. .	25.2	15.3	27.1	51.6	22.1	21.3	
ACT	27.4	—	 . .	. .	. .	27.3	26.9	
NT	. .	. .	77.6	110.6	301.4	128.7	64.5	
Australia	21.9	21.1	18.8	32.2	84.0	21.8	21.3	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c).
. .	Not applicable.
Notes
1.	These figures include CACPs provided by Multi-purpose Services and places and packages funded under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program.
2. 	An estimate of the 2007 Australian Standard Geographical Classification population figures were derived at the AIHW from the 2006 Australian Standard Geographical Classification population figures and the ABS estimated resident population figures for state/territory 30 June 2007 released in December 2007 (ABS 2007b, ABS 2007c). The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population aged 50–69 years uses ABS projections (ABS 2004) based on the 2001 Census, as the estimated resident population are not yet available for Indigenous Australians.

Table 2.3: CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, remoteness(a) by state/territory, 30 June 2007
State/territory	Major 
cities	Inner 
regional	Outer 
regional	Remote	Very 
remote	All 
regions	
	Number	
CACPs	
NSW	8,516	3,330	757	53	20	12,676	
Vic	7,591	1,731	406	14	. .	9,742	
Qld	3,227	1,918	1,106	205	188	6,644	
WA	2,409	398	363	184	55	3,409	
SA	2,363	543	308	77	60	3,351	
Tas	. .	738	246	24	15	1,023	
ACT	499	—	. .	. .	. .	499	
NT	. .	. .	190	123	340	653	
Australia	24,605	8,658	3,376	680	678	37,997	
EACH packages	
NSW	741	255	87	—	—	1,083	
Vic	658	174	50	—	. .	882	
Qld	268	176	79	4	—	527	
WA	226	41	20	5	—	292	
SA	206	47	33	—	—	286	
Tas	. .	75	—	—	—	75	
ACT	87	—	. .	. .	. . 	87	
NT	. .	. .	55	15	—	70	
Australia	2,186	768	324	24	—	3,302	
EACH Dementia packages	
NSW	321	87	31	—	—	439	
Vic	267	49	10	—	. .	326	
Qld	135	73	23	—	—	231	
WA	59	7	10	—	—	76	
SA	87	7	17	—	—	111	
Tas	. .	28	10	—	—	38	
ACT	30	—	. .	. .	. .	30	
NT	. .	. .	15	5	—	20	
Australia	899	251	116	5	—	1,271	
Combined (CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia)	
NSW	9,578	3,672	875	53	20	14,198	
Vic	8,516	1,954	466	14	. .	10,950	
Qld	3,630	2,167	1,208	209	188	7,402	
WA	2,694	446	393	189	55	3,777	
SA	2,656	597	358	77	60	3,748	
Tas	. .	841	256	24	15	1,136	
ACT	616	—	. .	. .	. .	616	
NT	. .	. .	260	143	340	743	
Australia	27,690	9,677	3,816	709	678	42,570	
						(continued)

Table 2.3 (continued): CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, state/territory by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
State/territory	Major 
cities	Inner 
regional	Outer 
regional	Remote	Very 
remote	All 
regions	
	Per cent (column)	
CACPs							
NSW	34.6	38.5	22.4	7.8	2.9	33.4	
Vic	30.9	20.0	12.0	2.1	. .	25.6	
Qld	13.1	22.2	32.8	30.1	27.7	17.5	
WA	9.8	4.6	10.8	27.1	8.1	9.0	
SA	9.6	6.3	9.1	11.3	8.8	8.8	
Tas	. .	8.5	7.3	3.5	2.2	2.7	
ACT	2.0	—	. .	. .	. .	1.3	
NT	. .	. .	5.6	18.1	50.1	1.7	
Australia	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
EACH packages	
NSW	33.9	33.2	26.9	—	—	32.8	
Vic	30.1	22.7	15.4	—	. .	26.7	
Qld	12.3	22.9	24.4	16.7	—	16.0	
WA	10.3	5.3	6.2	20.8	—	8.8	
SA	9.4	6.1	10.2	—	—	8.7	
Tas	. .	9.8	—	—	—	2.3	
ACT	4.0	—	. .	. .	. .	2.6	
NT	. .	. .	17.0	62.5	—	2.1	
Australia	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
EACH Dementia packages	
NSW	35.7	34.7	26.7	—	—	34.5	
Vic	29.7	19.5	8.6	—	. .	25.6	
Qld	15.0	29.1	19.8	—	—	18.2	
WA	6.6	2.8	8.6	—	—	6.0	
SA	9.7	2.8	14.7	—	—	8.7	
Tas	. .	11.2	8.6	—	—	3.0	
ACT	3.3	—	. .	. .	. .	2.4	
NT	. .	. .	12.9	100.0	—	1.6	
Australia	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
Combined (CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia)	
NSW	34.6	37.9	22.9	7.5	2.9	33.4	
Vic	30.8	20.2	12.2	2.0	. .	25.7	
Qld	13.1	22.4	31.7	29.5	27.7	17.4	
WA	9.7	4.6	10.3	26.7	8.1	8.9	
SA	9.6	6.2	9.4	10.9	8.8	8.8	
Tas	. .	8.7	6.7	3.4	2.2	2.7	
ACT	2.2	—	. .	. .	. .	1.4	
NT	. .	. .	6.8	20.2	50.1	1.7	
Australia	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
						(continued)

Table 2.3 (continued): CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, state/territory by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
State/territory	Major 
cities	Inner 
regional	Outer 
regional	Remote	Very 
remote	All 
regions	
	Per cent (row)	
CACPs		
NSW	67.2	26.3	6.0	0.4	0.2	100.0	
Vic	77.9	17.8	4.2	0.1	. .	100.0	
Qld	48.6	28.9	16.6	3.1	2.8	100.0	
WA	70.7	11.7	10.6	5.4	1.6	100.0	
SA	70.5	16.2	9.2	2.3	1.8	100.0	
Tas	. .	72.1	24.0	2.3	1.5	100.0	
ACT	100.0	—	. .	. .	. .	100.0	
NT	. .	. .	29.1	18.8	52.1	100.0	
Australia	64.8	22.8	8.9	1.8	1.8	100.0	
EACH packages	
NSW	68.4	23.5	8.0	—	—	100.0	
Vic	74.6	19.7	5.7	—	. .	100.0	
Qld	50.9	33.4	15.0	0.8	—	100.0	
WA	77.4	14.0	6.8	1.7	—	100.0	
SA	72.0	16.4	11.5	—	—	100.0	
Tas	. .	100.0	—	—	—	100.0	
ACT	100.0	—	. .	. .	. .	100.0	
NT	. .	. .	78.6	21.4	—	100.0	
Australia	66.2	23.3	9.8	0.7	—	100.0	
EACH Dementia packages	
NSW	73.1	19.8	7.1	—	—	100.0	
Vic	81.9	15.0	3.1	—	. .	100.0	
Qld	58.4	31.6	10.0	—	—	100.0	
WA	77.6	9.2	13.2	—	—	100.0	
SA	78.4	6.3	15.3	—	—	100.0	
Tas	. .	73.7	26.3	—	—	100.0	
ACT	100.0	—	. .	. .	. .	100.0	
NT	. .	. .	75.0	25.0	—	100.0	
Australia	70.7	19.7	9.1	0.4	—	100.0	
Combined (CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia)	
NSW	67.5	25.9	6.2	0.4	0.1	100.0	
Vic	77.8	17.8	4.3	0.1	. .	100.0	
Qld	49.0	29.3	16.3	2.8	2.5	100.0	
WA	71.3	11.8	10.4	5.0	1.5	100.0	
SA	70.9	15.9	9.6	2.1	1.6	100.0	
Tas	. .	74.0	22.5	2.1	1.3	100.0	
ACT	100.0	—	. .	. .	. .	100.0	
NT	. .	. .	35.0	19.2	45.8	100.0	
Australia	65.0	22.7	9.0	1.7	1.6	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 
Note: These figures include CACPs provided by Multi-purpose Services and places and packages funded under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program.	

Table 2.4: CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, state/territory by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
State/territory	Major 
cities	Inner 
regional	Outer 
regional	Remote	Very
 remote	All 
regions	
	Number	
CACP	
NSW	168	99	35	2	1	305	
Vic	156	56	12	2	. .	226	
Qld	89	72	59	12	17	249	
WA	49	12	17	10	5	93	
SA	44	12	8	2	1	67	
Tas	. .	34	12	1	1	48	
ACT	11	—	. .	. . 	. .	11	
NT	. .	. .	9	11	34	54	
Australia	517	285	152	40	59	1,053	
EACH 	
NSW	39	22	7	—	—	68	
Vic	30	8	3	—	. .	41	
Qld	18	16	7	1	—	42	
WA	8	4	2	1	—	15	
SA	17	4	4	—	—	25	
Tas	. .	3	—	—	—	3	
ACT	6	—	. .	. .	. .	6	
NT	. .	. .	4	1	—	5	
Australia	118	57	27	3	—	205	
EACH Dementia 	
NSW	27	10	2	—	—	39	
Vic	17	5	1	—	. .	23	
Qld	9	6	2	—	—	17	
WA	2	2	2	—	—	6	
SA	11	1	3	—	—	15	
Tas	. .	3	1	—	—	4	
ACT	4	—	. .	. .	. . 	4	
NT	. .	. .	2	1	—	3	
Australia	70	27	13	1	—	111	
						(continued)

Table 2.4 (continued): CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, state/territory by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
State/territory	Major 
cities	Inner 
regional	Outer 
regional	Remote	Very
 remote	All 
regions	
	Per cent (column)	
CACP 	
NSW	32.5	34.7	23.0	5.0	1.7	29.0	
Vic	30.2	19.6	7.9	5.0	. .	21.5	
Qld	17.2	25.3	38.8	30.0	28.8	23.6	
WA	9.5	4.2	11.2	25.0	8.5	8.8	
SA	8.5	4.2	5.3	5.0	1.7	6.4	
Tas	. .	11.9	7.9	2.5	1.7	4.6	
ACT	2.1	—	. .	. .	. .	1.0	
NT	. .	. .	5.9	27.5	57.6	5.1	
Australia	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
EACH 	
NSW	33.1	38.6	25.9	—	—	33.2	
Vic	25.4	14.0	11.1	—	. .	20.0	
Qld	15.3	28.1	25.9	33.3	—	20.5	
WA	6.8	7.0	7.4	33.3	—	7.3	
SA	14.4	7.0	14.8	—	—	12.2	
Tas	. .	5.3	—	—	—	1.5	
ACT	5.1	—	. .	 . .	. . 	2.9	
NT	. .	. .	14.8	33.3	—	2.4	
Australia	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
EACH Dementia 	
NSW	38.6	37.0	15.4	—	—	35.1	
Vic	24.3	18.5	7.7	—	. . 	20.7	
Qld	12.9	22.2	15.4	—	—	15.3	
WA	2.9	7.4	15.4	—	—	5.4	
SA	15.7	3.7	23.1	—	—	13.5	
Tas	. . 	11.1	7.7	—	—	3.6	
ACT	5.7	—	. . 	. . 	. . 	3.6	
NT	. . 	. . 	15.4	100.0	—	2.7	
Australia	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
						(continued)

Table 2.4 (continued): CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, state/territory by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
State/territory	Major 
cities	Inner 
regional	Outer 
regional	Remote	Very
 remote	All 
regions	
	Per cent (rows)	
CACP 	
NSW	55.1	32.5	11.5	0.7	0.3	100.0	
Vic	69.0	24.8	5.3	0.9	. .	100.0	
Qld	35.7	28.9	23.7	4.8	6.8	100.0	
WA	52.7	12.9	18.3	10.8	5.4	100.0	
SA	65.7	17.9	11.9	3.0	1.5	100.0	
Tas	. .	70.8	25.0	2.1	2.1	100.0	
ACT	100.0	—	. .	. .	. .	100.0	
NT	. .	. .	16.7	20.4	63.0	100.0	
Australia	49.1	27.1	14.4	3.8	5.6	100.0	
EACH 	
NSW	57.4	32.4	10.3	—	—	100.0	
Vic	73.2	19.5	7.3	—	. .	100.0	
Qld	42.9	38.1	16.7	2.4	—	100.0	
WA	53.3	26.7	13.3	6.7	—	100.0	
SA	68.0	16.0	16.0	—	—	100.0	
Tas	. .	100.0	—	—	—	100.0	
ACT	100.0	—	. .	. .	. .	100.0	
NT	. .	. .	80.0	20.0	—	100.0	
Australia	57.6	27.8	13.2	1.5	—	100.0	
EACH Dementia 	
NSW	69.2	25.6	5.1	—	—	100.0	
Vic	73.9	21.7	4.3	—	. .	100.0	
Qld	52.9	35.3	11.8	—	—	100.0	
WA	33.3	33.3	33.3	—	—	100.0	
SA	73.3	6.7	20.0	—	—	100.0	
Tas	. .	75.0	25.0	—	—	100.0	
ACT	100.0	—	. .	. .	. .	100.0	
NT	. .	. .	66.7	33.3	—	100.0	
Australia	63.1	24.3	11.7	0.9	—	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 
. .	Not applicable.
Note: Some providers may provide more than one type of package.

Table 2.5: CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, size by state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Number of packages	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number of services	
CACPs	
1–20	102	80	142	35	18	28	5	49	459	
21–40	94	66	56	29	17	18	2	4	286	
41–60	44	30	32	13	12	1	1	—	133	
61–80	28	20	14	7	12	1	1	1	84	
81–100	18	10	4	5	2	—	—	—	39	
101–120	12	6	—	2	3	—	1	—	24	
121+	7	14	1	2	3	—	1	—	28	
Total	305	226	249	93	67	48	11	54	1,053	
EACH packages	
1–20	53	25	39	11	23	—	5	5	161	
21–40	13	11	3	1	2	3	—	—	33	
41–60	2	4	—	—	—	—	1	—	10	
61–80	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	
Total	68	41	42	15	25	3	6	5	205	
EACH Dementia packages	
1–20	36	21	16	5	15	4	4	3	104	
21–40	3	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	6	
41–60	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	1	
Total	39	23	17	6	15	4	4	3	111	
	Per cent	
CACPs	
1–20	33.4	35.4	57.0	37.6	26.9	58.3	45.5	90.7	43.6	
21–40	30.8	29.2	22.5	31.2	25.4	37.5	18.2	7.4	27.2	
41–60	14.4	13.3	12.9	14.0	17.9	2.1	9.1	—	12.6	
61–80	9.2	8.8	5.6	7.5	17.9	2.1	9.1	1.9	8.0	
81–100	5.9	4.4	1.6	5.4	3.0	—	—	—	3.7	
101–120	3.9	2.7	—	2.2	4.5	—	9.1	—	2.3	
121+	2.3	6.2	0.4	2.2	4.5	—	9.1	—	2.7	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
EACH packages	
1–20	77.9	61.0	92.9	73.3	92.0	—	83.3	100.0	78.5	
21–40	19.1	26.8	7.1	6.7	8.0	100.0	—	—	16.1	
41–60	2.9	9.8	—	—	—	—	16.7	—	4.9	
61–80	—	2.4	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
EACH Dementia packages	
1–20	92.3	91.3	94.1	83.3	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	93.7	
21–40	7.7	8.7	5.9	—	—	—	—	—	5.4	
41–60	—	—	—	16.7	—	—	—	—	0.9	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. 
Note: Some services may provide more than one type of care.

Table 2.6: CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, size by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Number of packages	Major 
cities	Inner 
regional	Outer 
regional	Remote 	Very 
remote	Total	
	Number of services	
CACPs		
1–20	136	134	100	30	59	459	
21–40	159	86	33	8	—	286	
41–60	87	32	12	2	—	133	
61–80	57	21	6	—	—	84	
81–100	33	6	—	—	—	39	
101–120	19	5	—	—	—	24	
121+	26	1	1	—	—	28	
Total	517	285	152	40	59	1,053	
EACH packages	
1–2	86	48	24	3	—	161	
21–40	21	9	3	—	—	33	
41–60	10	—	—	—	—	10	
61–80	1	—	—	—	—	1	
Total	118	57	27	3	—	205	
EACH Dementia packages	
1–20	63	27	13	1	—	104	
21–40	6	—	—	—	—	6	
41–60	1	—	—	—	—	1	
Total	70	27	13	1	—	111	
	Per cent	
CACPs	
1–20	26.3	47.0	65.8	75.0	100.0	43.6	
21–40	30.8	30.2	21.7	20.0	—	27.2	
41–60	16.8	11.2	7.9	5.0	—	12.6	
61–80	11.0	7.4	3.9	—	—	8.0	
81–100	6.4	2.1	—	—	—	3.7	
101–120	3.7	1.8	—	—	—	2.3	
121+	5.0	0.4	0.7	—	—	2.7	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
EACH packages	
1–20	72.9	84.2	88.9	100.0	—	78.5	
21–40	17.8	15.8	11.1	—	—	16.1	
41–60	8.5	—	—	—	—	4.9	
61–80	0.8	—	—	—	—	0.5	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
EACH Dementia packages	
1–20	90.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	93.7	
21–40	8.6	—	—	—	—	5.4	
41–60	1.4	—	—	—	—	0.9	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 
Note: Some services may provide more than one type of care.

Table 2.7: CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, organisation type by state/territory(a), 30 June 2007 
Organisation type	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
CACPs	
Charitable 	79	56	30	43	21	9	5	5	248	
Community-based	68	45	54	9	10	16	3	17	222	
Local government 	19	23	23	11	2	1	—	23	102	
Private	19	5	15	6	3	5	1	2	56	
Religious	102	65	116	18	23	12	2	7	345	
State government 	18	32	11	6	8	5	—	—	80	
Total	305	226	249	93	67	48	11	54	1,053	
EACH 	
Charitable 	27	7	10	8	12	2	3	2	71	
Community-based	10	4	3	1	4	—	2	—	24	
Local government 	1	2	—	1	1	—	—	—	5	
Private	10	—	2	1	1	—	—	1	15	
Religious	20	22	27	4	7	1	1	2	84	
State government 	—	6	—	—	—	—	—	—	6	
Total	68	41	42	15	25	3	6	5	205	
EACH Dementia 	
Charitable 	21	4	6	4	11	—	3	—	49	
Community-based	2	4	2	—	1	—	1	—	10	
Local government 	1	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	2	
Private	4	—	1	—	1	1	—	1	8	
Religious	11	13	8	2	1	3	—	2	40	
State government 	—	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	
Total	39	23	17	6	15	4	4	3	111	
						(continued)

Table 2.7 (continued): CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, organisation type by state/territory(a), 30 June 2007 
Organisation type	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Per cent	
CACP	
Charitable 	25.9	24.8	12.0	46.2	31.3	18.8	45.5	9.3	23.6	
Community-based	22.3	19.9	21.7	9.7	14.9	33.3	27.3	31.5	21.1	
Local government 	6.2	10.2	9.2	11.8	3.0	2.1	—	42.6	9.7	
Private	6.2	2.2	6.0	6.5	4.5	10.4	9.1	3.7	5.3	
Religious	33.4	28.8	46.6	19.4	34.3	25.0	18.2	13.0	32.8	
State government 	5.9	14.2	4.4	6.5	11.9	10.4	—	—	7.6	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
EACH 	
Charitable 	39.7	17.1	23.8	53.3	48.0	66.7	50.0	40.0	34.6	
Community-based	14.7	9.8	7.1	6.7	16.0	—	33.3	—	11.7	
Local government 	1.5	4.9	—	6.7	4.0	—	—	—	2.4	
Private	14.7	—	4.8	6.7	4.0	—	—	20.0	7.3	
Religious	29.4	53.7	64.3	26.7	28.0	33.3	16.7	40.0	41.0	
State government 	—	14.6	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.9	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
EACH Dementia 	
Charitable 	53.8	17.4	35.3	66.7	73.3	—	75.0	—	44.1	
Community-based	5.1	17.4	11.8	—	6.7	—	25.0	—	9.0	
Local government 	2.6	—	—	—	6.7	—	—	—	1.8	
Private	10.3	—	5.9	—	6.7	25.0	—	33.3	7.2	
Religious	28.2	56.5	47.1	33.3	6.7	75.0	—	66.7	36.0	
State government 	—	8.7	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.	 

Table 2.8: Average annual occupancy rate(a) for CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, by state/territory and remoteness(b), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007 (per cent)
State/territory	Major 
cities	Inner 
regional	Outer 
regional	Remote	Very 
remote	All 
regions	
CACP	
NSW	94.7	93.8	93.8	86.5	99.8	94.4	
Vic	95.5	97.3	92.7	81.6	. .	95.7	
Qld	83.2	85.2	92.4	70.3	73.7	84.8	
WA	91.0	96.5	96.0	100.2	89.2	92.5	
SA	95.2	97.7	91.5	95.2	86.7	95.2	
Tas	. .	95.7	99.6	99.9	100.0	96.8	
ACT	95.6	—	. .	. .	. .	95.6	
NT	. .	. .	97.3	93.7	96.5	96.2	
Australia	93.1	93.2	93.8	89.1	88.1	93.1	
EACH	
NSW	83.3	86.8	88.6	—	—	84.6	
Vic	95.2	98.2	91.2	—	. .	95.6	
Qld	87.0	87.5	92.5	40.2	—	87.7	
WA	78.6	83.6	24.2	27.4	—	77.8	
SA	95.5	97.1	87.0	—	—	94.9	
Tas	. .	92.1	—	—	—	92.1	
ACT	91.9	—	. .	. .	. .	91.9	
NT	. .	. .	82.5	81.0	—	82.1	
Australia	88.1	90.7	87.6	70.5	—	88.6	
EACH Dementia	
NSW	53.5	64.4	83.7	—	—	58.5	
Vic	83.7	32.4	86.1	—	. .	80.8	
Qld	64.8	68.1	44.1	—	—	64.4	
WA	73.7	86.9	37.0	—	—	71.2	
SA	71.9	90.8	69.8	—	—	73.5	
Tas	. .	72.7	43.5	—	—	64.4	
ACT	84.5	—	. .	. .	. .	84.5	
NT	. .	. .	79.0	44.6	—	73.9	
Australia	68.9	66.1	68.3	44.6	—	68.3	
(a)	The average rate= (The sum of days packages were filled during the period/The sum of available places in the period)*100, for each cell, where / represents division and * represents multiplication.	
(b)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 
. .	Not applicable.	
Note: Occupancy rates should be viewed in conjunction with the number of places available (see Table 2.3). Low occupancy rates can translate to small numbers of vacant places in areas where the number of places is small. In addition, occupancy rates can be expected to be lower in areas where packages have recently been allocated and the rate of increase in the number of packages is rapid. In particular, the number of EACH Dementia cases has more than doubled in the 12 months to 30 June 2007, and the number of EACH packages in remote areas has increased from 4 at 30 June 2006 to 24 at 30 June 2007.
3 	CACP recipients
In 2006–07, 49,619 individuals who were eligible to receive low-level residential aged care received assistance from nearly 37,997 operational CACPs, which helped them remain in the community in their own homes (tables 3.1, A1 and A6). Of these, 34,867 were receiving assistance at 30 June 2007.
3.1 Age and sex distribution
The majority of the 34,867 CACP recipients at 30 June 2007 were aged 80 years and over (64%) compared with 59% at 30 June 2000. Those aged 90 years and over accounted for 16% of package recipients (Table 3.1). Female recipients predominated in absolute numbers, with 24,715 female recipients and 10,152 male recipients (Table 3.1). Female recipients at 30 June 2007 accounted for 63% of recipients aged under 50 years and 74% of recipients aged 85 years and over. Female recipients tended to be older than their male counterparts (Figure 2.1). Of total clients, 59% were women aged 75 years and over. 

Figure 3.1: Age and sex profile of CACP recipients, 30 June 2007
Two horizontal bar charts showing Age group on y-axis and CACP recipients (per cent) on x-axis. First shows males, second females.
Source: Table 3.1.

When compared with care recipients in the other states and the Australian Capital Territory, recipients in the Northern Territory had the youngest age profile, with only 59% over the age of 70 years (Table 3.1). The oldest age profile was found in Tasmania where care recipients aged 70 years and over made up 94% compared with the national average of 89%. 
Over the 8 years to 2006–07, the proportion of care recipients aged 70–79 has decreased from 29% to 25%, while the proportion of those aged 80 years and over has increased from 59% to 65% of care recipients. However, in the individual age groups, the strongest growth was in those aged 90 years and over from 12% to 16%, and the largest decrease in the 70–74 year and 75–79 year age groups (from 11% to 9% and from 18% to 16%, respectively). The 80–84 year age group was the largest 5-year age group in each year of this period, with 8,623 care recipients (25% at 30 June 2007) (tables 3.1 and A2). 
3.2 Younger care recipients (aged under 65 years)
The main aim of the CACP program is to help older people in the community who have complex care needs. Younger people with disabilities can get help through a care package only if their care needs fit the criteria of the program and there are no other appropriate services operating in their area (DoHA  2007). Consequently, it is uncommon for younger people with disability to use the program; just over 5% of care recipients were aged under 65 years, and 0.5% of care recipients were aged under 50 years (Table 3.1). A higher proportion of male recipients were aged under 65 years (8%) compared with females (5%), although in absolute numbers, younger females outnumbered younger male clients (1,115 females compared with 769 males) (Figure 2.1; Table 3.1). Of younger care recipients, 25% identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples, a group who more commonly access aged care services at younger ages than the rest of the population (see Table 3.10). 
3.3 Birthplace and preferred language
Birthplace and preferred language were recorded for almost all CACP recipients. Of those recipients who reported their birthplace, about 3 in 10 were born overseas (32%). Clients born in the United Kingdom and Ireland accounted for 10% of care recipients. About 3% were born in North and West Europe, while 12% were born in South/East Europe. People born in Asia accounted for 4% of care recipients (Table 3.4). 
The composition of care recipients by country of birth also varied among states and territories (Table 3.4). Excluding recipients who did not respond to this item, in Western Australia, people born overseas made up 44% of care recipients and in the Australian Capital Territory this proportion was 39%, whereas only 11% and 26% of recipients from the Northern Territory and Tasmania, respectively, were born overseas. In most states and territories, the majority of overseas-born care recipients were from either South/East European countries or the United Kingdom and Ireland. In Tasmania, most overseas-born care recipients were from North and West Europe and the United Kingdom and Ireland. The proportion of care recipients from North and West Europe in that state has increased from 5% at 30 June 2004 to 6% at 30 June 2007, while the proportion of care recipients from South and East Europe has decreased from 7% to 5% over the same period. 
Nationally, 84% of all responding care recipients indicated that English was their preferred language, and 11% preferred another European language. Australian Indigenous languages accounted for just over 1% of preferred languages of all respondents (Table 3.5). 
3.4 Usual residence status
Of the 34,134 care recipients who reported their usual residence status at the time of application for a CACP, the majority were home owners or purchasers (66%). Care recipients who lived in public rental housing made up 13% and those who lived in a private rental property or were boarding or lodging accounted for 7% (Table 3.6). 
The Northern Territory stood out from the other states and territories, with 39% of all responding care recipients indicating public rental housing as their usual residence, with the next highest being the Australian Capital Territory at 17%. Care should be taken when interpreting these figures, however, given the small number of care recipients in both territories. 
3.5 Living arrangements
The question that care recipients were asked in relation to their living arrangements at the time of application for a package was: ‘With whom do you normally live?’ Of those for whom a response was recorded, a large proportion of care recipients reported normally living alone (55%) or with family (41%). In contrast to care recipients in most states, 65% of recipients in the Northern Territory reported living with family, with only 25% living alone (Table 3.7). 
3.6	‘Special needs’ groups
There are particular groups of older Australians who are more likely to be disadvantaged in accessing aged care services compared with older Australians in general. These groups are defined by the Aged Care Act 1997 as ‘special needs’ groups, which include those who live in rural or remote areas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people born overseas in countries where English is not the main language spoken, people with personal financial hardship, and veterans. One of the Australian Government’s objectives is to promote equitable access to the program for these groups. 
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander care recipients
In total, 1,254 care recipients were identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples at 30 June 2007, making up 3.6% of identified recipients. There were 82 (0.2%) care recipients whose Indigenous status was unknown or not stated. 
In the Northern Territory, 65% of care recipients identified as being Indigenous Australians. Western Australia had the next highest proportion at 5.5%. The proportions reported in other jurisdictions ranged from 1.2% in Victoria to 3.8% in the Australian Capital Territory (Table 3.8). 
As shown in Table 3.9, remote and very remote areas of Australia were home to a high proportion (41%) of the Indigenous care recipients at 30 June 2007. A further 21% lived in outer regional areas. The remaining Indigenous care recipients lived in major cities (16%) and inner regional areas (22%). 
The age profile of this subgroup of care recipients is considerably younger than that of the general population of care recipients (Figure 3.2), with 4% aged under 50 years, 51% aged between 50 and 69 years, and 45% aged 70 years and over (compared with 0.3%, 9% and 91%, respectively, for other Australian care recipients) (Table 3.10). 
There were 257 packages provided to Indigenous care recipients by services receiving flexible funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program. No further data are available on the characteristics of care recipients receiving packages under the strategy. It is probable that a significant proportion of the 359 packages available from Multi-purpose Services were also used by Indigenous clients. However, further detail is not available for this report. 
Using the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Indigenous population projections (ABS 2004), the ratio of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples receiving CACPs, including those receiving packages under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program, was 25.6 per 1,000 Indigenous persons aged 50 years and over at 30 June 2007. 
Age-specific usage rates are an important element in understanding service use by Indigenous recipients. Table 3.11 shows usage rates for Indigenous care recipients receiving assistance from mainstream service providers by age and sex. At 30 June 2007, the rate of Indigenous Australians receiving packages was 36.0 per 1,000 Indigenous persons aged 65–69 years, 52.2 per 1,000 aged 70–74 years, and 86.6 per 1,000 persons aged 75 years and over. The comparable figures for other Australians were 2.0, 4.3 and 21.3 per 1,000, respectively. 

Figure 3.2: Age profile of Indigenous and other Australian CACP recipients, 30 June 2007
Vertical bar chart showing per cent on y-axis and age group (years) on x-axis. Key shows ‘Indigenous Australian’ and ‘Other Australian’.
Source: Table 3.10.
The proportion of care recipients that was identified as Indigenous has increased from 2.6% of mainstream care recipients to 4.0% in 2004, and was 3.6% at 30 June 2007. When including packages provided under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program, these proportions increase to 3.0% in 2000, 4.7% in 2005, and 4.3% at 30 June 2007 (Table A3).
Care recipients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds 
For the purposes of this report, people who were born overseas in countries where English is not the main language spoken are defined as those who were born in countries other than Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the United States of America, Canada and South Africa. Overall, there were 7,387 people who fit this definition receiving packages at 30 June 2007, accounting for 21% of care recipients (Table 3.12). 
Based on AIHW projections of ABS-estimated resident population by country of birth, it was estimated that 14.0 per 1,000 Australian-born people aged 75–84 years and 39.3 per 1,000 aged 85 years and over were using CACPs at 30 June 2007. The corresponding rates for English‑speaking people who were born overseas were 12.5 and 39.4, respectively, whereas the corresponding rates for people born overseas in countries where English is not the main language were higher at 18.4 and 46.6 per 1,000 persons (Table 3.13). 
Despite the fact that usage of CACPs is high for older people in this group, the proportion of care recipients who were born overseas in countries where English was not the main language spoken has decreased from 25% at 30 June 2000 to 21% at 30 June 2007. The proportion born overseas in English speaking countries has also decreased from 16% to 11%. Over the same period the proportion of Australian-born recipients has increased from 59% to 68% (Table A4). 
Care recipients in financial hardship
For the purposes of the CACP program, a person with financial hardship is defined as someone ‘who did not own a home in the 2 years before the reference time; and at the reference time was in receipt of the maximum basic rate of pension or benefit’. The conditions of allocation of packages may require priority of access for people who are financially and socially disadvantaged, and the proportion of packages subject to this requirement are specified in the service providers’ formal contracts (DoHA 2007). 
The specified proportion of allocations varies from region to region depending mainly on the existing service provision levels in the region where the outlet is located. Outlets providing housing-linked packages are specifically obliged to reserve all their packages for care recipients in financial hardship. Housing-linked packages have the same eligibility criteria as general care packages. They are aimed at people with financial hardship living in designated rental housing developments. These could range from congregate settings with high concentrations of aged people (such as boarding houses) to detached public housing spread across a particular suburb.
At 30 June 2007, 1,053 outlets were providing CACPs throughout Australia. For almost all of these (98%) the target set for provision to care recipients in financial hardship was at least 10% of their total packages, with the majority (79%) having a target of between 11% and 30% (Table 3.14). There were 83 outlets whose target was 90% or more of their care packages for care recipients in financial hardship. The Northern Territory was the most exceptional case with 15% of the outlets having a target of more than 90%, and 28% with a target of more than 80%. In addition, all Northern Territory outlets had a target of over 50%. This reflects the higher proportion of people identified as being in financial hardship in the Northern Territory. Victoria (13%) and Tasmania (17%) also had high proportions of outlets with a target in excess of 90%, but had no outlets with a target between 81% and 90% (Table 3.14). Of outlets in New South Wales, 9% had a target of more than 80%. In addition, outlets in remote and very remote regions were more likely than others to have targets of 80% or more for recipients in financial hardship (Table 3.15).
Overall, 9,719 (28%) packages were allocated for people in financial hardship (Table 3.17), with the Northern Territory also having the highest proportion of such packages (69%), which was at least twice the proportion for any other state or territory. 
The proportion of care recipients identified as being in financial hardship for each state and territory is presented in Table 3.16, and for each remoteness category in Table 3.18. These figures should be treated with great caution, as financial hardship status was not reported for 10,550 (30%) mainstream care recipients, with non-response rates varying considerably across jurisdictions (from 11% for South Australia to 58% for the Northern Territory). Financial disadvantage is usually reported as part of the outlets’ subsidy claim forms and recorded in the ACCMIS database used to produce this publication, although there is provision for disadvantage to be reported by other means. With the exception of records for Western Australia and South Australia, the high level of missing information in this database means that this report cannot make an assessment on whether these targets have been met. 
Of those for whom financial hardship status was reported, 34% were in financial hardship and 66% were not. The high levels of missing data for this characteristic preclude further analysis of access by people in financial hardship.
The Community Aged Care Packages census 2002 (AIHW 2004a) provides analysis of such access in this area, with a much lower level of missing data. A second census of care packages being done in 2008 is also expected to collect better information on the financial disadvantage of CACP recipients.
Care recipients in outer regional and remote areas
As shown in Table 3.2, 3,962 CACP recipients lived in outer regional, remote and very remote areas of Australia. This number accounted for 11% of all care recipients at 30 June 2007 (9% in outer regional areas and 3% in remote and very remote areas) (Table 3.3). The age profile for care recipients in these regions is younger than for care recipients in major cities and inner regional areas, with 21% of care recipients in outer regional, remote and very remote areas under the age of 70 years (compared with 9% and 12% in major cities and inner regional areas, respectively). This difference in the age profile is more marked when care recipients in very remote areas are viewed separately, where 41% of recipients were aged less than 70 years. This age profile of care recipients in remote and very remote areas is likely to be influenced by the younger age profile of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander care recipients, who made up 35% of care recipients in remote areas and 74% of recipients in very remote areas (Table 3.9).
3.7	Admissions and separations
Between 1 July 2006 and 30 June 2007, there were 18,886 admissions to a CACP, and 15,835 separations (tables 3.19 and 3.20). 
The majority of admissions (83%) were for people aged 75 years and over, and more than two‑thirds were for females, with 32% of admissions being for males. 
Over the period from 1999–00 to 2006–07, the age of admission has increased, with the proportion of people aged 80 years and over increasing from 57% in 1999–00 to 65% in 
2006–07 (Table A5).
Among those who stopped receiving assistance from a CACP provider between 1 July 2006 and 30 June 2007, the main reasons reported were that care recipients either left to go to a residential aged care service (47%) or died (18%). A small proportion of care recipients left to be admitted to a hospital (5%) or to move to another CACP service provider (8%) (Table 3.20). 
This pattern of completed care episodes is consistent across most states and territories. However, the Northern Territory is an exception, with a lower proportion moving to a residential aged care service (20%) and a higher proportion of deaths (32%). The Northern Territory also had a higher percentage moving to another CACP provider (20%). Care must be taken in interpreting results for the Northern Territory, however, given the small number of separations involved (173). 
The proportion of men who left to go to a residential aged care service was somewhat lower (42% of separations involving men) than that for women (49%). Conversely, there were a higher proportion of deaths among men (24%) than among women (16%). 
For separations from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007, 18% received care for less than 3 months from a service provider before leaving, 34% for 3 months to 1 year, 20% between 1 and 2 years, and 17% between 2 and 4 years (Table 3.21). The number of care recipients who received care for more than 4 years from the same service outlet accounted for 11%, compared to 9% in 
2004–05. In 2006–07, the maximum length of care from a service provider before leaving was over 12 years and 6 months (ranging from 8 years and 5 months in the Australian Capital Territory to 12 years and 8 months in South Australia (AIHW, unpublished data). 
The relationship between length of stay and reasons for separations was also considered (Table 3.22). There does not seem to be a strong correlation between length of stay and reason for separation; however, very short stay (less than 4 weeks) care recipients were less likely to leave a package and enter residential care than longer stay care recipients, and care recipients with a longer length of stay were more likely to have died. Care recipients whose reason for leaving was recorded as ‘Other’ were more likely to have stayed for less than 3 months (30%) than other care recipients (16%).

Table 3.1: CACP recipients, age by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
0–49	33	21	33	1	5	—	—	13	106	
50–54	35	32	28	9	5	1	1	10	121	
55–59	76	83	65	25	21	3	3	31	307	
60–64	176	167	108	46	36	9	6	33	581	
65–69 	391	348	153	75	78	26	12	51	1,134	
70–74 	676	552	280	164	160	61	15	59	1,967	
75–79 	1,355	1,089	586	299	363	116	47	54	3,909	
80–84 	2,273	1,596	957	533	634	172	104	53	6,322	
85–89 	2,262	1,429	1,023	535	609	203	99	22	6,182	
90–94 	1,204	693	561	309	307	111	55	9	3,249	
95+	306	172	145	92	85	27	8	2	837	
Total females	8,787	6,182	3,939	2,088	2,303	729	350	337	24,715	
Males										
0–49	16	14	21	4	2	—	1	3	61	
50–54	32	41	17	10	11	—	2	10	123	
55–59	54	61	35	24	20	—	—	19	213	
60–64	96	111	57	36	28	6	7	31	372	
65–69 	197	248	101	62	51	11	9	35	714	
70–74 	295	296	154	96	78	24	14	39	996	
75–79 	540	518	237	176	126	51	14	44	1,706	
80–84 	728	679	365	203	222	41	34	29	2,301	
85–89 	761	609	399	167	204	51	23	16	2,230	
90–94 	397	292	218	105	102	34	15	4	1,167	
95+	83	56	57	31	26	6	8	2	269	
Total males	3,199	2,925	1,661	914	870	224	127	232	10,152	
Persons										
0–49	49	35	54	5	7	—	1	16	167	
50–54	67	73	45	19	16	1	3	20	244	
55–59	130	144	100	49	41	3	3	50	520	
60–64	272	278	165	82	64	15	13	64	953	
65–69 	588	596	254	137	129	37	21	86	1,848	
70–74 	971	848	434	260	238	85	29	98	2,963	
75–79 	1,895	1,607	823	475	489	167	61	98	5,615	
80–84 	3,001	2,275	1,322	736	856	213	138	82	8,623	
85–89 	3,023	2,038	1,422	702	813	254	122	38	8,412	
90–94 	1,601	985	779	414	409	145	70	13	4,416	
95+	389	228	202	123	111	33	16	4	1,106	
Total	11,986	9,107	5,600	3,002	3,173	953	477	569	34,867	
									(continued)

Table 3.1 (continued): CACP recipients, age by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Per cent	
Females										
0–49	0.4	0.3	0.8	—	0.2	—	—	3.9	0.4	
50–54	0.4	0.5	0.7	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.3	3.0	0.5	
55–59	0.9	1.3	1.7	1.2	0.9	0.4	0.9	9.2	1.2	
60–64	2.0	2.7	2.7	2.2	1.6	1.2	1.7	9.8	2.4	
65–69 	4.4	5.6	3.9	3.6	3.4	3.6	3.4	15.1	4.6	
70–74 	7.7	8.9	7.1	7.9	6.9	8.4	4.3	17.5	8.0	
75–79 	15.4	17.6	14.9	14.3	15.8	15.9	13.4	16.0	15.8	
80–84 	25.9	25.8	24.3	25.5	27.5	23.6	29.7	15.7	25.6	
85–89 	25.7	23.1	26.0	25.6	26.4	27.8	28.3	6.5	25.0	
90–94 	13.7	11.2	14.2	14.8	13.3	15.2	15.7	2.7	13.1	
95+	3.5	2.8	3.7	4.4	3.7	3.7	2.3	0.6	3.4	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
0–49	0.5	0.5	1.3	0.4	0.2	—	0.8	1.3	0.6	
50–54	1.0	1.4	1.0	1.1	1.3	—	1.6	4.3	1.2	
55–59	1.7	2.1	2.1	2.6	2.3	—	—	8.2	2.1	
60–64	3.0	3.8	3.4	3.9	3.2	2.7	5.5	13.4	3.7	
65–69 	6.2	8.5	6.1	6.8	5.9	4.9	7.1	15.1	7.0	
70–74 	9.2	10.1	9.3	10.5	9.0	10.7	11.0	16.8	9.8	
75–79 	16.9	17.7	14.3	19.3	14.5	22.8	11.0	19.0	16.8	
80–84 	22.8	23.2	22.0	22.2	25.5	18.3	26.8	12.5	22.7	
85–89 	23.8	20.8	24.0	18.3	23.4	22.8	18.1	6.9	22.0	
90–94 	12.4	10.0	13.1	11.5	11.7	15.2	11.8	1.7	11.5	
95+	2.6	1.9	3.4	3.4	3.0	2.7	6.3	0.9	2.6	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
0–49	0.4	0.4	1.0	0.2	0.2	—	0.2	2.8	0.5	
50–54	0.6	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.1	0.6	3.5	0.7	
55–59	1.1	1.6	1.8	1.6	1.3	0.3	0.6	8.8	1.5	
60–64	2.3	3.1	2.9	2.7	2.0	1.6	2.7	11.2	2.7	
65–69 	4.9	6.5	4.5	4.6	4.1	3.9	4.4	15.1	5.3	
70–74 	8.1	9.3	7.8	8.7	7.5	8.9	6.1	17.2	8.5	
75–79 	15.8	17.6	14.7	15.8	15.4	17.5	12.8	17.2	16.1	
80–84 	25.0	25.0	23.6	24.5	27.0	22.4	28.9	14.4	24.7	
85–89 	25.2	22.4	25.4	23.4	25.6	26.7	25.6	6.7	24.1	
90–94 	13.4	10.8	13.9	13.8	12.9	15.2	14.7	2.3	12.7	
95+	3.2	2.5	3.6	4.1	3.5	3.5	3.4	0.7	3.2	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.	

Table 3.2: CACP recipients, age by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	Major
 cities	Inner
 regional	Outer 
regional	Remote	Very 
remote	All 
regions	
	Number	
Females		 	 	 	 		
0–49	34	31	25	5	11	106	
50–54	46	39	22	4	10	121	
55–59	117	99	52	15	24	307	
60–64	298	139	94	14	36	581	
65–69 	672	266	122	31	43	1,134	
70–74 	1,226	466	186	36	53	1,967	
75–79 	2,610	899	309	49	42	3,909	
80–84 	4,338	1,403	485	65	31	6,322	
85–89 	4,213	1,414	487	51	17	6,182	
90–94 	2,213	761	233	31	11	3,249	
95+	603	169	52	8	5	837	
Total females	16,370	5,686	2,067	309	283	24,715	
Males							
0–49	23	19	11	—	8	61	
50–54	54	36	23	5	5	123	
55–59	99	53	27	16	18	213	
60–64	199	96	45	17	15	372	
65–69 	406	161	110	19	18	714	
70–74 	595	230	116	24	31	996	
75–79 	1,063	413	163	36	31	1,706	
80–84 	1,546	523	182	30	20	2,301	
85–89 	1,552	490	150	17	21	2,230	
90–94 	798	259	91	12	7	1,167	
95+	179	55	29	5	1	269	
Total males 	6,514	2,335	947	181	175	10,152	
Persons							
0–49	57	50	36	5	19	167	
50–54	100	75	45	9	15	244	
55–59	216	152	79	31	42	520	
60–64	497	235	139	31	51	953	
65–69 	1,078	427	232	50	61	1,848	
70–74 	1,821	696	302	60	84	2,963	
75–79 	3,673	1,312	472	85	73	5,615	
80–84 	5,884	1,926	667	95	51	8,623	
85–89 	5,765	1,904	637	68	38	8,412	
90–94 	3,011	1,020	324	43	18	4,416	
95+	782	224	81	13	6	1,106	
Total	22,884	8,021	3,014	490	458	34,867	
(continued)

Table 3.2 (continued): CACP recipients, age by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	Major 
cities	Inner 
regional	Outer
 regional	Remote	Very 
remote	All 
regions	
	Per cent	
Females							
0–49	0.2	0.5	1.2	1.6	3.9	0.4	
50–54	0.3	0.7	1.1	1.3	3.5	0.5	
55–59	0.7	1.7	2.5	4.9	8.5	1.2	
60–64	1.8	2.4	4.5	4.5	12.7	2.4	
65–69 	4.1	4.7	5.9	10.0	15.2	4.6	
70–74 	7.5	8.2	9.0	11.7	18.7	8.0	
75–79 	15.9	15.8	14.9	15.9	14.8	15.8	
80–84 	26.5	24.7	23.5	21.0	11.0	25.6	
85–89 	25.7	24.9	23.6	16.5	6.0	25.0	
90–94 	13.5	13.4	11.3	10.0	3.9	13.1	
95+	3.7	3.0	2.5	2.6	1.8	3.4	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males							
0–49	0.4	0.8	1.2	—	4.6	0.6	
50–54	0.8	1.5	2.4	2.8	2.9	1.2	
55–59	1.5	2.3	2.9	8.8	10.3	2.1	
60–64	3.1	4.1	4.8	9.4	8.6	3.7	
65–69 	6.2	6.9	11.6	10.5	10.3	7.0	
70–74 	9.1	9.9	12.2	13.3	17.7	9.8	
75–79 	16.3	17.7	17.2	19.9	17.7	16.8	
80–84 	23.7	22.4	19.2	16.6	11.4	22.7	
85–89 	23.8	21.0	15.8	9.4	12.0	22.0	
90–94 	12.3	11.1	9.6	6.6	4.0	11.5	
95+	2.7	2.4	3.1	2.8	0.6	2.6	
Total males 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons							
0–49	0.2	0.6	1.2	1.0	4.1	0.5	
50–54	0.4	0.9	1.5	1.8	3.3	0.7	
55–59	0.9	1.9	2.6	6.3	9.2	1.5	
60–64	2.2	2.9	4.6	6.3	11.1	2.7	
65–69 	4.7	5.3	7.7	10.2	13.3	5.3	
70–74 	8.0	8.7	10.0	12.2	18.3	8.5	
75–79 	16.1	16.4	15.7	17.3	15.9	16.1	
80–84 	25.7	24.0	22.1	19.4	11.1	24.7	
85–89 	25.2	23.7	21.1	13.9	8.3	24.1	
90–94 	13.2	12.7	10.7	8.8	3.9	12.7	
95+	3.4	2.8	2.7	2.7	1.3	3.2	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 

Table 3.3: CACP recipients, remoteness(a) by state/territory, 30 June 2007	
State/territory	Major 
cities	Inner 
regional	Outer
 regional	Remote	Very 
remote	All 
regions	
	Number	
NSW 	8,140	3,113	692	30	11	11,986	
Vic 	7,051	1,679	368	9	. .	9,107	
Qld 	2,743	1,632	992	105	128	5,600	
WA	2,206	375	240	146	35	3,002	
SA	2,267	532	298	59	17	3,173	
Tas 	. .	690	237	24	2	953	
ACT 	477	—	. .	. .	. .	477	
NT	. .	. .	187	117	265	569	
Australia	22,884	8,021	3,014	490	458	34,867	
	Per cent (column)	
NSW 	35.6	38.8	23.0	6.1	2.4	34.4	
Vic	30.8	20.9	12.2	1.8	. .	26.1	
Qld	12.0	20.3	32.9	21.4	27.9	16.1	
WA	9.6	4.7	8.0	29.8	7.6	8.6	
SA	9.9	6.6	9.9	12.0	3.7	9.1	
Tas 	. .	8.6	7.9	4.9	0.4	2.7	
ACT 	2.1	—	. .	. .	. .	1.4	
NT	. .	. .	6.2	23.9	57.9	1.6	
Australia	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
	Per cent (row)	
NSW 	67.9	26.0	5.8	0.3	0.1	100.0	
Vic	77.4	18.4	4.0	0.1	. .	100.0	
Qld	49.0	29.1	17.7	1.9	2.3	100.0	
WA	73.5	12.5	8.0	4.9	1.2	100.0	
SA	71.4	16.8	9.4	1.9	0.5	100.0	
Tas 	. .	72.4	24.9	2.5	0.2	100.0	
ACT 	100.0	—	. .	. .	. .	100.0	
NT	. .	. .	32.9	20.6	46.6	100.0	
Australia	65.6	23.0	8.6	1.4	1.3	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 

Table 3.4: CACP recipients, birthplace(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Sex/birthplace	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Australia	6,088	3,913	2,776	1,179	1,534	538	221	307	16,556	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	80	43	80	7	7	2	4	3	226	
UK and Ireland	619	521	314	375	301	80	57	10	2,277	
North/West Europe	225	261	100	94	79	40	19	2	820	
South/East Europe	922	1,014	289	249	271	38	19	2	2,804	
North Africa/Middle East	174	90	17	11	17	2	—	—	311	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	36	29	17	20	8	3	1	1	115	
Southeast Asia	119	99	32	61	22	3	10	3	349	
Northeast Asia	236	62	37	15	7	11	6	1	375	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	55	62	21	62	7	4	8	4	223	
North America	17	14	8	4	6	1	2	—	52	
Other America/Caribbean	59	11	16	2	3	—	2	—	93	
Other	1	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	
Not stated/not classified	156	62	232	9	41	7	1	4	512	
Total females	8,787	6,182	3,939	2,088	2,303	729	350	337	24,715	
Males										
Australia	2,141	1,778	1,183	507	546	162	68	192	6,577	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	21	23	30	7	1	2	2	3	89	
UK and Ireland	280	292	136	193	141	22	29	15	1,108	
North/West Europe	88	109	52	36	37	16	9	5	352	
South/East Europe	383	518	114	96	110	13	11	9	1,254	
North Africa/Middle East	62	41	13	10	6	—	1	1	134	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	10	17	7	5	—	—	—	—	39	
Southeast Asia	45	37	11	27	7	1	1	1	130	
Northeast Asia	74	26	21	7	4	5	1	1	139	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	18	37	12	17	6	2	2	—	94	
North America	7	3	9	5	1	—	1	3	29	
Other America/Caribbean	19	8	4	—	1	—	1	—	33	
Other	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	
Not stated/not classified	50	36	69	4	10	1	1	2	173	
Total males	3,199	2,925	1,661	914	870	224	127	232	10,152	
Persons										
Australia	8,229	5,691	3,959	1,686	2,080	700	289	499	23,133	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	101	66	110	14	8	4	6	6	315	
UK and Ireland	899	813	450	568	442	102	86	25	3,385	
North/West Europe	313	370	152	130	116	56	28	7	1,172	
South/East Europe	1,305	1,532	403	345	381	51	30	11	4,058	
North Africa/Middle East	236	131	30	21	23	2	1	1	445	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	46	46	24	25	8	3	1	1	154	
Southeast Asia	164	136	43	88	29	4	11	4	479	
Northeast Asia	310	88	58	22	11	16	7	2	514	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	73	99	33	79	13	6	10	4	317	
North America	24	17	17	9	7	1	3	3	81	
Other America/Caribbean	78	19	20	2	4	—	3	—	126	
Other	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	
Not stated/not classified	206	98	301	13	51	8	2	6	685	
Total 	11,986	9,107	5,600	3,002	3,173	953	477	569	34,867	
									(continued)

Table 3.4 (continued): CACP recipients, birthplace(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007	
Sex/birthplace	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
Females	Per cent	
Australia	69.3	63.3	70.5	56.5	66.6	73.8	63.1	91.1	67.0	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	0.9	0.7	2.0	0.3	0.3	0.3	1.1	0.9	0.9	
UK and Ireland	7.0	8.4	8.0	18.0	13.1	11.0	16.3	3.0	9.2	
North/West Europe	2.6	4.2	2.5	4.5	3.4	5.5	5.4	0.6	3.3	
South/East Europe	10.5	16.4	7.3	11.9	11.8	5.2	5.4	0.6	11.3	
North Africa/Middle East	2.0	1.5	0.4	0.5	0.7	0.3	—	—	1.3	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	0.4	0.5	0.4	1.0	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.5	
Southeast Asia	1.4	1.6	0.8	2.9	1.0	0.4	2.9	0.9	1.4	
Northeast Asia	2.7	1.0	0.9	0.7	0.3	1.5	1.7	0.3	1.5	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	0.6	1.0	0.5	3.0	0.3	0.5	2.3	1.2	0.9	
North America	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.6	—	0.2	
Other America/Caribbean	0.7	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.1	—	0.6	—	0.4	
Other	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Not stated/not classified	1.8	1.0	5.9	0.4	1.8	1.0	0.3	1.2	2.1	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Australia	66.9	60.8	71.2	55.5	62.8	72.3	53.5	82.8	64.8	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	0.7	0.8	1.8	0.8	0.1	0.9	1.6	1.3	0.9	
UK and Ireland	8.8	10.0	8.2	21.1	16.2	9.8	22.8	6.5	10.9	
North/West Europe	2.8	3.7	3.1	3.9	4.3	7.1	7.1	2.2	3.5	
South/East Europe	12.0	17.7	6.9	10.5	12.6	5.8	8.7	3.9	12.4	
North Africa/Middle East	1.9	1.4	0.8	1.1	0.7	—	0.8	0.4	1.3	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	0.3	0.6	0.4	0.5	—	—	—	—	0.4	
Southeast Asia	1.4	1.3	0.7	3.0	0.8	0.4	0.8	0.4	1.3	
Northeast Asia	2.3	0.9	1.3	0.8	0.5	2.2	0.8	0.4	1.4	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	0.6	1.3	0.7	1.9	0.7	0.9	1.6	—	0.9	
North America	0.2	0.1	0.5	0.5	0.1	—	0.8	1.3	0.3	
Other America/Caribbean	0.6	0.3	0.2	—	0.1	—	0.8	—	0.3	
Other	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Not stated/not classified	1.6	1.2	4.2	0.4	1.1	0.4	0.8	0.9	1.7	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Australia	68.7	62.5	70.7	56.2	65.6	73.5	60.6	87.7	66.3	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	0.8	0.7	2.0	0.5	0.3	0.4	1.3	1.1	0.9	
UK and Ireland	7.5	8.9	8.0	18.9	13.9	10.7	18.0	4.4	9.7	
North/West Europe	2.6	4.1	2.7	4.3	3.7	5.9	5.9	1.2	3.4	
South/East Europe	10.9	16.8	7.2	11.5	12.0	5.4	6.3	1.9	11.6	
North Africa/Middle East	2.0	1.4	0.5	0.7	0.7	0.2	0.2	0.2	1.3	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.8	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.4	
Southeast Asia	1.4	1.5	0.8	2.9	0.9	0.4	2.3	0.7	1.4	
Northeast Asia	2.6	1.0	1.0	0.7	0.3	1.7	1.5	0.4	1.5	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	0.6	1.1	0.6	2.6	0.4	0.6	2.1	0.7	0.9	
North America	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.6	0.5	0.2	
Other America/Caribbean	0.7	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.1	—	0.6	—	0.4	
Other	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Not stated/not classified	1.7	1.1	5.4	0.4	1.6	0.8	0.4	1.1	2.0	
Total 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	ABS 2007d.
(b)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.	

  Table 3.5: CACP recipients, preferred language(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Sex/preferred language	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Australian Indigenous	2	—	8	54	3	—	—	200	267	
English	7,284	4,918	3,417	1,732	1,975	674	303	120	20,423	
Other Northern European	93	137	17	39	40	16	10	1	353	
Southern European	578	531	124	140	154	10	8	1	1,546	
Eastern European	296	363	84	75	69	13	7	1	908	
Southwest Asian and North African	113	29	7	5	5	2	1	—	162	
Southern Asian	12	12	11	5	1	—	4	—	45	
Southeast Asian	60	61	7	13	10	—	10	1	162	
Eastern Asian	216	65	35	22	5	11	5	—	359	
African (excluding North African)	—	2	—	1	—	—	—	—	3	
Oceanic	3	1	2	—	2	—	—	—	8	
Other	6	9	7	—	3	1	1	3	30	
Not stated	124	54	220	2	36	2	1	10	449	
Total females	8,787	6,182	3,939	2,088	2,303	729	350	337	24,715	
Males										
Australian Indigenous	1	—	2	38	1	—	—	98	140	
English	2,653	2,336	1,496	761	751	207	108	118	8,430	
Other Northern European	27	41	9	13	16	4	5	1	116	
Southern European	214	286	39	53	57	3	4	2	658	
Eastern European	114	163	17	29	23	4	8	1	359	
Southwest Asian and North African	45	16	7	1	2	—	—	1	72	
Southern Asian	6	6	2	2	1	—	—	—	17	
Southeast Asian	24	20	3	6	3	—	1	—	57	
Eastern Asian	73	32	19	8	4	6	—	1	143	
African (excluding North African)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Oceanic	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	
Other	3	5	4	—	2	—	—	4	18	
Not stated	37	19	63	3	10	—	1	6	139	
Total males	3,199	2,925	1,661	914	870	224	127	232	10,152	
Persons										
Australian Indigenous	3	—	10	92	4	—	—	298	407	
English	9,937	7,254	4,913	2,493	2,726	881	411	238	28,853	
Other Northern European	120	178	26	52	56	20	15	2	469	
Southern European	792	817	163	193	211	13	12	3	2,204	
Eastern European	410	526	101	104	92	17	15	2	1,267	
Southwest Asian and North African	158	45	14	6	7	2	1	1	234	
Southern Asian	18	18	13	7	2	—	4	—	62	
Southeast Asian	84	81	10	19	13	—	11	1	219	
Eastern Asian	289	97	54	30	9	17	5	1	502	
African (excluding North African)	—	2	—	1	—	—	—	—	3	
Oceanic	5	2	2	—	2	—	—	—	11	
Other	9	14	11	—	5	1	1	7	48	
Not stated	161	73	283	5	46	2	2	16	588	
Total 	11,986	9,107	5,600	3,002	3,173	953	477	569	34,867	
								(continued)

Table 3.5 (continued): CACP recipients, preferred language(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Sex/preferred language	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Per cent	
Females										
Australian Indigenous	—	—	0.2	2.6	0.1	—	—	59.3	1.1	
English	82.9	79.6	86.7	83.0	85.8	92.5	86.6	35.6	82.6	
Other Northern European	1.1	2.2	0.4	1.9	1.7	2.2	2.9	0.3	1.4	
Southern European	6.6	8.6	3.1	6.7	6.7	1.4	2.3	0.3	6.3	
Eastern European	3.4	5.9	2.1	3.6	3.0	1.8	2.0	0.3	3.7	
Southwest Asian and North African	1.3	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	—	0.7	
Southern Asian	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.2	—	—	1.1	—	0.2	
Southeast Asian	0.7	1.0	0.2	0.6	0.4	—	2.9	0.3	0.7	
Eastern Asian	2.5	1.1	0.9	1.1	0.2	1.5	1.4	—	1.5	
African (excluding North African)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Oceanic	—	—	0.1	—	0.1	—	—	—	—	
Other	0.1	0.1	0.2	—	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.9	0.1	
Not stated	1.4	0.9	5.6	0.1	1.6	0.3	0.3	3.0	1.8	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Australian Indigenous	—	—	0.1	4.2	0.1	—	—	42.2	1.4	
English	82.9	79.9	90.1	83.3	86.3	92.4	85.0	50.9	83.0	
Other Northern European	0.8	1.4	0.5	1.4	1.8	1.8	3.9	0.4	1.1	
Southern European	6.7	9.8	2.3	5.8	6.6	1.3	3.1	0.9	6.5	
Eastern European	3.6	5.6	1.0	3.2	2.6	1.8	6.3	0.4	3.5	
Southwest Asian and North African	1.4	0.5	0.4	0.1	0.2	—	—	0.4	0.7	
Southern Asian	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	—	—	—	0.2	
Southeast Asian	0.8	0.7	0.2	0.7	0.3	—	0.8	—	0.6	
Eastern Asian	2.3	1.1	1.1	0.9	0.5	2.7	—	0.4	1.4	
African (excluding North African)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Oceanic	0.1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Other	0.1	0.2	0.2	—	0.2	—	—	1.7	0.2	
Not stated	1.2	0.6	3.8	0.3	1.1	—	0.8	2.6	1.4	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Australian Indigenous	—	—	0.2	3.1	0.1	—	—	52.4	1.2	
English	82.9	79.7	87.7	83.0	85.9	92.4	86.2	41.8	82.8	
Other Northern European	1.0	2.0	0.5	1.7	1.8	2.1	3.1	0.4	1.3	
Southern European	6.6	9.0	2.9	6.4	6.6	1.4	2.5	0.5	6.3	
Eastern European	3.4	5.8	1.8	3.5	2.9	1.8	3.1	0.4	3.6	
Southwest Asian and North African	1.3	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.7	
Southern Asian	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	—	0.8	—	0.2	
Southeast Asian	0.7	0.9	0.2	0.6	0.4	—	2.3	0.2	0.6	
Eastern Asian	2.4	1.1	1.0	1.0	0.3	1.8	1.0	0.2	1.4	
African (excluding North African)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Oceanic	—	—	—	—	0.1	—	—	—	—	
Other	0.1	0.2	0.2	—	0.2	0.1	0.2	1.2	0.1	
Not stated	1.3	0.8	5.1	0.2	1.4	0.2	0.4	2.8	1.7	
Total 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	ABS 1997.	
(b)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.	

Table 3.6: CACP recipients, usual residence status(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007	
Sex/usual residence status	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Home owner/purchaser	5,925	4,390	2,155	1,338	1,404	517	187	100	16,016	
Public housing	1,098	623	316	265	332	87	68	131	2,920	
Private rental	464	360	245	110	110	62	10	14	1,375	
Board/lodging	30	5	68	13	6	2	—	2	126	
Other(c)	1,127	791	924	321	393	55	84	84	3,779	
Missing/not stated	143	13	231	41	58	6	1	6	499	
Total females	8,787	6,182	3,939	2,088	2,303	729	350	337	24,715	
Males										
Home owner/purchaser	2,085	1,965	915	565	518	152	85	75	6,360	
Public housing	463	379	139	148	140	39	12	85	1,405	
Private rental	245	210	133	65	50	17	7	15	742	
Board/lodging	16	23	26	7	5	—	—	3	80	
Other(c)	322	344	344	108	132	11	23	47	1,331	
Missing/not stated	68	4	104	21	25	5	—	7	234	
Total males	3,199	2,925	1,661	914	870	224	127	232	10,152	
Persons										
Home owner/purchaser	8,010	6,355	3,070	1,903	1,922	669	272	175	22,376	
Public housing	1,561	1,002	455	413	472	126	80	216	4,325	
Private rental	709	570	378	175	160	79	17	29	2,117	
Board/lodging	46	28	94	20	11	2	—	5	206	
Other(c)	1,449	1,135	1,268	429	525	66	107	131	5,110	
Missing/not stated	211	17	335	62	83	11	1	13	733	
Total	11,986	9,107	5,600	3,002	3,173	953	477	569	34,867	
	Per cent	
Females										
Home owner/purchaser	67.4	71.0	54.7	64.1	61.0	70.9	53.4	29.7	64.8	
Public housing	12.5	10.1	8.0	12.7	14.4	11.9	19.4	38.9	11.8	
Private rental	5.3	5.8	6.2	5.3	4.8	8.5	2.9	4.2	5.6	
Board/lodging	0.3	0.1	1.7	0.6	0.3	0.3	—	0.6	0.5	
Other(c)	12.8	12.8	23.5	15.4	17.1	7.5	24.0	24.9	15.3	
Missing/not stated	1.6	0.2	5.9	2.0	2.5	0.8	0.3	1.8	2.0	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Home owner/purchaser	65.2	67.2	55.1	61.8	59.5	67.9	66.9	32.3	62.6	
Public housing	14.5	13.0	8.4	16.2	16.1	17.4	9.4	36.6	13.8	
Private rental	7.7	7.2	8.0	7.1	5.7	7.6	5.5	6.5	7.3	
Board/lodging	0.5	0.8	1.6	0.8	0.6	—	—	1.3	0.8	
Other(c)	10.1	11.8	20.7	11.8	15.2	4.9	18.1	20.3	13.1	
Missing/not stated	2.1	0.1	6.3	2.3	2.9	2.2	—	3.0	2.3	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Home owner/purchaser	66.8	69.8	54.8	63.4	60.6	70.2	57.0	30.8	64.2	
Public housing	13.0	11.0	8.1	13.8	14.9	13.2	16.8	38.0	12.4	
Private rental	5.9	6.3	6.8	5.8	5.0	8.3	3.6	5.1	6.1	
Board/lodging	0.4	0.3	1.7	0.7	0.3	0.2	—	0.9	0.6	
Other(c)	12.1	12.5	22.6	14.3	16.5	6.9	22.4	23.0	14.7	
Missing/not stated	1.8	0.2	6.0	2.1	2.6	1.2	0.2	2.3	2.1	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Usual residence status is that prior to admission. 
(b)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.
(c)	Where the category 'Other' is largely coded as such in ACCMIS, small numbers of defined categories such as hospital and residential aged care are also included in this category.
Table 3.7: CACP recipients, living arrangements by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/living arrangements	 NSW 	 Vic 	 Qld 	 WA 	 SA 	 Tas 	 ACT 	 NT 	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Lives alone	5,143	3,480	2,246	1,235	1,410	509	221	65	14,309	
Lives with family	3,191	2,471	1,338	796	794	208	119	241	9,158	
Lives with others	292	169	338	35	74	8	5	28	949	
Undetermined	3	9	3	2	2	—	—	—	19	
Not applicable	158	53	14	20	23	4	5	3	280	
Total females	8,787	6,182	3,939	2,088	2,303	729	350	337	24,715	
Males										
Lives alone	1,406	1,218	753	440	417	131	52	76	4,493	
Lives with family	1,612	1,540	766	431	404	87	69	122	5,031	
Lives with others	121	136	133	37	34	6	4	24	495	
Undetermined	4	2	1	1	1	—	—	2	11	
Not applicable	56	29	8	5	14	—	2	8	122	
Total males	3,199	2,925	1,661	914	870	224	127	232	10,152	
Persons										
Lives alone	6,549	4,698	2,999	1,675	1,827	640	273	141	18,802	
Lives with family	4,803	4,011	2,104	1,227	1,198	295	188	363	14,189	
Lives with others	413	305	471	72	108	14	9	52	1,444	
Undetermined	7	11	4	3	3	—	—	2	30	
Not applicable	214	82	22	25	37	4	7	11	402	
Total 	11,986	9,107	5,600	3,002	3,173	953	477	569	34,867	
	Per cent	
Females										
Lives alone	58.5	56.3	57.0	59.1	61.2	69.8	63.1	19.3	57.9	
Lives with family	36.3	40.0	34.0	38.1	34.5	28.5	34.0	71.5	37.1	
Lives with others	3.3	2.7	8.6	1.7	3.2	1.1	1.4	8.3	3.8	
Undetermined	—	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	—	—	—	0.1	
Not applicable	1.8	0.9	0.4	1.0	1.0	0.5	1.4	0.9	1.1	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Lives alone	44.0	41.6	45.3	48.1	47.9	58.5	40.9	32.8	44.3	
Lives with family	50.4	52.6	46.1	47.2	46.4	38.8	54.3	52.6	49.6	
Lives with others	3.8	4.6	8.0	4.0	3.9	2.7	3.1	10.3	4.9	
Undetermined	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	—	—	0.9	0.1	
Not applicable	1.8	1.0	0.5	0.5	1.6	—	1.6	3.4	1.2	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Lives alone	54.6	51.6	53.6	55.8	57.6	67.2	57.2	24.8	53.9	
Lives with family	40.1	44.0	37.6	40.9	37.8	31.0	39.4	63.8	40.7	
Lives with others	3.4	3.3	8.4	2.4	3.4	1.5	1.9	9.1	4.1	
Undetermined	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	—	—	0.4	0.1	
Not applicable	1.8	0.9	0.4	0.8	1.2	0.4	1.5	1.9	1.2	
Total 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. 
Note: Not applicable is used for people who are permanent residents of residential aged care, Multi-purpose Services, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program, hospitals or other institutional settings. 	

Table 3.8: CACP recipients, Indigenous status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007	
Sex/Indigenous status	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Indigenous	223	69	127	101	47	19	11	243	840	
Other Australian	8,541	6,078	3,806	1,987	2,255	710	339	94	23,810	
Unknown/not reported	23	35	6	—	1	—	—	—	65	
Total females	8,787	6,182	3,939	2,088	2,303	729	350	337	24,715	
Males										
Indigenous	93	38	53	65	30	2	7	126	414	
Other Australian	3,104	2,875	1,606	849	839	222	120	106	9,721	
Unknown/not reported	2	12	2	—	1	—	—	—	17	
Total males	3,199	2,925	1,661	914	870	224	127	232	10,152	
Persons										
Indigenous	316	107	180	166	77	21	18	369	1,254	
Other Australian	11,645	8,953	5,412	2,836	3,094	932	459	200	33,531	
Unknown/not reported	25	47	8	—	2	—	—	—	82	
Total	11,986	9,107	5,600	3,002	3,173	953	477	569	34,867	
	Per cent	
Females										
Indigenous	2.5	1.1	3.2	4.8	2.0	2.6	3.1	72.1	3.4	
Other Australian	97.2	98.3	96.6	95.2	97.9	97.4	96.9	27.9	96.3	
Unknown/not reported	0.3	0.6	0.2	—	—	—	—	—	0.3	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Indigenous	2.9	1.3	3.2	7.1	3.4	0.9	5.5	54.3	4.1	
Other Australian	97.0	98.3	96.7	92.9	96.4	99.1	94.5	45.7	95.8	
Unknown/not reported	0.1	0.4	0.1	—	0.1	—	—	—	0.2	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Indigenous	2.6	1.2	3.2	5.5	2.4	2.2	3.8	64.9	3.6	
Other Australian	97.2	98.3	96.6	94.5	97.5	97.8	96.2	35.1	96.2	
Unknown/not reported	0.2	0.5	0.1	—	0.1	—	—	—	0.2	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.
Note: In addition, 248 packages were provided by services receiving flexible funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program, and many of the recipients of the 308 packages provided by Multi-purpose Services were likely to be Indigenous Australians.

 Table 3.9: CACP recipients, Indigenous status by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/Indigenous status	Major 
cities	Inner 
regional	Outer regional	Remote 	Very 
remote	All 
regions	
	Number	
Females		 	 	 	 		
Indigenous	144	190	180	103	223	840	
Other Australians	16,175	5,488	1,881	206	60	23,810	
Unknown/not reported	51	8	6	—	—	65	
Total females	16,370	5,686	2,067	309	283	24,715	
Males							
Indigenous	57	87	88	67	115	414	
Other Australians	6,444	2,246	858	113	60	9,721	
Unknown/not reported	13	2	1	1	—	17	
Total males 	6,514	2,335	947	181	175	10,152	
Persons							
Indigenous	201	277	268	170	338	1,254	
Other Australians	22,619	7,734	2,739	319	120	33,531	
Unknown/not reported	64	10	7	1	—	82	
Total	22,884	8,021	3,014	490	458	34,867	
	Per cent	
Females							
Indigenous	0.9	3.3	8.7	33.3	78.8	3.4	
Other Australians	98.8	96.5	91.0	66.7	21.2	96.3	
Unknown/not reported	0.3	0.1	0.3	—	—	0.3	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males							
Indigenous	0.9	3.7	9.3	37.0	65.7	4.1	
Other Australians	98.9	96.2	90.6	62.4	34.3	95.8	
Unknown/not reported	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.6	—	0.2	
Total males 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons							
Indigenous	0.9	3.5	8.9	34.7	73.8	3.6	
Other Australians	98.8	96.4	90.9	65.1	26.2	96.2	
Unknown/not reported	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.2	—	0.2	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 
Note: In addition, 248 packages were provided by services receiving flexible funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program, and many of the recipients of the 308 packages provided by Multi-purpose Services were likely to be Indigenous Australians.

Table 3.10: CACP recipients, Indigenous status by sex and age, 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	Indigenous		Other Australian		Unknown		Total care recipients	
	Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent	
Females	
0–49	36	4.3		70	0.3		—	—		106	0.4	
50–54	50	6.0		71	0.3		—	—		121	0.5	
55–59	99	11.8		206	0.9		2	3.1		307	1.2	
60–64	112	13.3		468	2.0		1	1.5		581	2.4	
65–69 	144	17.1		990	4.2		—	—		1,134	4.6	
70–74 	143	17.0		1,818	7.6		6	9.2		1,967	8.0	
75–79 	122	14.5		3,773	15.8		14	21.5		3,909	15.8	
80–84 	76	9.0		6,226	26.1		20	30.8		6,322	25.6	
85–89 	38	4.5		6,133	25.8		11	16.9		6,182	25.0	
90+ 	20	2.4		4,055	17.0		11	16.9		4,086	16.5	
Total females	840	100.0		23,810	100.0		65	100.0		24,715	100.0	
Males	
0–49	14	3.4		46	0.5		1	5.9		61	0.6	
50–54	36	8.7		87	0.9		—	—		123	1.2	
55–59	52	12.6		159	1.6		2	11.8		213	2.1	
60–64	65	15.7		306	3.1		1	5.9		372	3.7	
65–69 	83	20.0		627	6.4		4	23.5		714	7.0	
70–74 	62	15.0		934	9.6		—	—		996	9.8	
75–79 	51	12.3		1,653	17.0		2	11.8		1,706	16.8	
80–84 	30	7.2		2,269	23.3		2	11.8		2,301	22.7	
85–89 	13	3.1		2,213	22.8		4	23.5		2,230	22.0	
90+ 	8	1.9		1,427	14.7		1	5.9		1,436	14.1	
Total males	414	100.0		9,721	100.0		17	100.0		10,152	100.0	
Persons	
0–49	50	4.0		116	0.3		1	1.2		167	0.5	
50–54	86	6.9		158	0.5		—	—		244	0.7	
55–59	151	12.0		365	1.1		4	4.9		520	1.5	
60–64	177	14.1		774	2.3		2	2.4		953	2.7	
65–69 	227	18.1		1,617	4.8		4	4.9		1,848	5.3	
70–74 	205	16.3		2,752	8.2		6	7.3		2,963	8.5	
75–79 	173	13.8		5,426	16.2		16	19.5		5,615	16.1	
80–84 	106	8.5		8,495	25.3		22	26.8		8,623	24.7	
85–89 	51	4.1		8,346	24.9		15	18.3		8,412	24.1	
90+ 	28	2.2		5,482	16.3		12	14.6		5,522	15.8	
Total 	1,254	100.0		33,531	100.0		82	100.0		34,867	100.0	
Note: In addition, 248 packages were provided by services receiving flexible funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program, and many of the recipients of the 308 packages provided by Multi-purpose Services were likely to be Indigenous Australians.

Table 3.11: Age- and sex-specific usage rates for CACP recipients(a), by Indigenous status, 30 June 2007 (per 1,000 population)(b)
	Indigenous		Other Australian	
Age (years)	Females	Males	Persons		Females	Males	Persons	
0–49	0.2	0.1	0.1		—	—	—	
50–54	5.1	3.9	4.5		0.1	0.1	0.1	
55–59	13.1	7.5	10.5		0.3	0.3	0.3	
60–64	23.3	14.7	19.2		0.9	0.6	0.7	
65–69 	41.9	28.9	36.0		2.5	1.6	2.0	
70–74 	65.7	35.4	52.2		5.5	3.0	4.3	
75+	103.8	61.1	86.6		26.3	14.1	21.3	
Total	3.3	1.6	2.5		2.3	1.0	1.6	
(a)	Recipients with unknown status have been proportioned across categories.
(b)	Ratios are calculated using ABS projections of the Indigenous population (ABS 2004) and the total estimated resident population released in December 2007 (ABS 2007b).

Table 3.12: CACP recipients, English-speaking status based on country of birth, by sex and age, 
30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	Australian-born		Overseas-born		Total care recipients	
			English-speaking background		Countries where English is not the main language spoken			
	Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent	
Females												
0–49	103	0.6		—	—		3	0.1		106	0.4	
50–54	106	0.6		5	0.2		10	0.2		121	0.5	
55–59	260	1.5		18	0.7		29	0.6		307	1.2	
60–64	473	2.8		34	1.3		74	1.4		581	2.4	
65–69	796	4.7		86	3.3		252	4.9		1,134	4.6	
70–74	1,291	7.6		166	6.3		510	9.9		1,967	8.0	
75–79	2,534	15.0		374	14.2		1,001	19.4		3,909	15.8	
80–84	4,056	24.0		643	24.5		1,623	31.4		6,322	25.6	
85–89	4,308	25.5		763	29.0		1,111	21.5		6,182	25.0	
90+	2,987	17.7		539	20.5		560	10.8		4,086	16.5	
Total females	16,914	100.0		2,628	100.0		5,173	100.0		24,715	100.0	
Males												
0–49	55	0.8		3	0.2		3	0.1		61	0.6	
50–54	109	1.6		2	0.2		12	0.5		123	1.2	
55–59	183	2.7		16	1.3		14	0.6		213	2.1	
60–64	309	4.6		21	1.7		42	1.9		372	3.7	
65–69	539	8.0		69	5.6		106	4.8		714	7.0	
70–74	666	9.9		105	8.5		225	10.2		996	9.8	
75–79	1,092	16.3		181	14.6		433	19.6		1,706	16.8	
80–84	1,388	20.7		309	24.9		604	27.3		2,301	22.7	
85–89	1,375	20.5		364	29.3		491	22.2		2,230	22.0	
90+	981	14.6		171	13.8		284	12.8		1,436	14.1	
Total males	6,697	100.0		1,241	100.0		2,214	100.0		10,152	100.0	
Persons												
0–49	158	0.7		3	0.1		6	0.1		167	0.5	
50–54	215	0.9		7	0.2		22	0.3		244	0.7	
55–59	443	1.9		34	0.9		43	0.6		520	1.5	
60–64	782	3.3		55	1.4		116	1.6		953	2.7	
65–69	1,335	5.7		155	4.0		358	4.8		1,848	5.3	
70–74	1,957	8.3		271	7.0		735	9.9		2,963	8.5	
75–79	3,626	15.4		555	14.3		1,434	19.4		5,615	16.1	
80–84	5,444	23.1		952	24.6		2,227	30.1		8,623	24.7	
85–89	5,683	24.1		1,127	29.1		1,602	21.7		8,412	24.1	
90+	3,968	16.8		710	18.4		844	11.4		5,522	15.8	
Total	23,611	100.0		3,869	100.0		7,387	100.0		34,867	100.0	
Note: Recipients of undetermined origin have been spread proportionately over the overseas-born categories.

Table 3.13: Age- and sex-specific usage rates for CACP recipients, by English-speaking status based on country of birth, 30 June 2007 (per 1,000 population)
Sex/age (years)	Australian-born	Overseas-born	Total care
 recipients	
		English-speaking background	Countries where English is not the main language spoken		
Females					
50–64	0.7	0.2	0.3	0.5	
65–74	4.4	2.5	4.6	4.2	
75–84	17.7	16.2	25.2	18.9	
85+	43.3	42.8	52.3	44.5	
Total females (50+)	7.5	5.9	7.5	7.3	
Males					
50–64	0.5	0.1	0.2	0.4	
65–74	2.8	1.6	1.9	2.4	
75–84	9.1	8.5	11.0	9.4	
85+	30.5	33.1	37.6	32.1	
Total males (50+)	3.3	2.8	3.3	3.2	
Persons					
50–64	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.5	
65–74	3.6	2.1	3.2	3.3	
75–84	14.0	12.5	18.4	14.8	
85+	39.3	39.4	46.6	40.4	
Total (50+)	5.5	4.3	5.5	5.4	
Notes				
1.	Recipients with unknown status have been spread proportionately across overseas-born categories.	
2.	Ratios are calculated using AIHW projections of ABS estimated resident population (ABS 2006) by country of birth. The table uses the Australian Standard Classification of Countries, as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007d).	
3.	Owing to the unavailability of regular population estimates by language preference, English-speaking status is based on country of birth. People born in Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom, New Zealand, United States of America, Canada and South Africa are assumed to be from an English-speaking background. 				

Table 3.14: CACP outlets, financial hardship target by state/territory, 30 June 2007
FDP(a) target 
percentage	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
None	7	—	10	—	1	4	—	—	22	
1–10	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
11–20	136	74	132	17	59	24	—	—	442	
21–30	131	101	83	57	3	9	9	—	393	
31–40	3	21	14	12	—	2	2	—	54	
41–50	—	—	1	1	1	1	—	—	4	
51–60	1	—	—	3	—	—	—	38	42	
61–70	1	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	2	
71–80	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	
81–90	1	—	2	—	—	—	—	7	10	
91–100	25	30	7	3	2	8	—	8	83	
Total	305	226	249	93	67	48	11	54	1,053	
	Per cent	
None	2.3	—	4.0	—	1.5	8.3	—	—	2.1	
1–10	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
11–20	44.6	32.7	53.0	18.3	88.1	50.0	—	—	42.0	
21–30	43.0	44.7	33.3	61.3	4.5	18.8	81.8	—	37.3	
31–40	1.0	9.3	5.6	12.9	—	4.2	18.2	—	5.1	
41–50	—	—	0.4	1.1	1.5	2.1	—	—	0.4	
51–60	0.3	—	—	3.2	—	—	—	70.4	4.0	
61–70	0.3	—	—	—	1.5	—	—	—	0.2	
71–80	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9	0.1	
81–90	0.3	—	0.8	—	—	—	—	13.0	0.9	
91–100	8.2	13.3	2.8	3.2	3.0	16.7	—	14.8	7.9	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Financially disadvantaged person.

Table 3.15: CACP outlets, financial hardship target by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
FDP(b) target 
percentage	Major 
cities	Inner regional	Outer 
regional	Remote	Very 
remote	All 
regions	
	Number	
None	16	5	—	—	1	22	
1–10	—	—	—	—	—	—	
11–20	194	156	73	12	7	442	
21–30	224	95	56	9	9	393	
31–40	37	7	2	6	2	54	
41–50	1	1	1	—	1	4	
51–60	4	—	9	8	21	42	
61–70	1	1	—	—	—	2	
71–80	—	—	—	—	1	1	
81–90	1	—	—	1	8	10	
91–100	39	20	11	4	9	83	
Total	517	285	152	40	59	1,053	
	Per cent	
None	3.1	1.8	—	—	1.7	2.1	
1–10	—	—	—	—	—	—	
11–20	37.5	54.7	48.0	30.0	11.9	42.0	
21–30	43.3	33.3	36.8	22.5	15.3	37.3	
31–40	7.2	2.5	1.3	15.0	3.4	5.1	
41–50	0.2	0.4	0.7	—	1.7	0.4	
51–60	0.8	—	5.9	20.0	35.6	4.0	
61–70	0.2	0.4	—	—	—	0.2	
71–80	—	—	—	—	1.7	0.1	
81–90	0.2	—	—	2.5	13.6	0.9	
91–100	7.5	7.0	7.2	10.0	15.3	7.9	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard 
Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 
(b)	Financially disadvantaged person. 

Table 3.16: Care recipients, financial hardship status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/FDP(b) status	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Disadvantaged	1,954	1,336	688	595	721	187	95	104	5,680	
Not disadvantaged	4,333	2,681	1,616	1,116	1,320	364	184	23	11,637	
Unknown	2,500	2,165	1,635	377	262	178	71	210	7,398	
Total females	8,787	6,182	3,939	2,088	2,303	729	350	337	24,715	
Males										
Disadvantaged	776	832	308	270	287	60	32	84	2,649	
Not disadvantaged	1,466	1,136	631	442	482	94	69	31	4,351	
Unknown	957	957	722	202	101	70	26	117	3,152	
Total males	3,199	2,925	1,661	914	870	224	127	232	10,152	
Persons										
Disadvantaged	2,730	2,168	996	865	1,008	247	127	188	8,329	
Not disadvantaged	5,799	3,817	2,247	1,558	1,802	458	253	54	15,988	
Unknown	3,457	3,122	2,357	579	363	248	97	327	10,550	
Total	11,986	9,107	5,600	3,002	3,173	953	477	569	34,867	
	Per cent	
Females										
Disadvantaged	22.2	21.6	17.5	28.5	31.3	25.7	27.1	30.9	23.0	
Not disadvantaged	49.3	43.4	41.0	53.4	57.3	49.9	52.6	6.8	47.1	
Unknown	28.5	35.0	41.5	18.1	11.4	24.4	20.3	62.3	29.9	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Disadvantaged	24.3	28.4	18.5	29.5	33.0	26.8	25.2	36.2	26.1	
Not disadvantaged	45.8	38.8	38.0	48.4	55.4	42.0	54.3	13.4	42.9	
Unknown	29.9	32.7	43.5	22.1	11.6	31.3	20.5	50.4	31.0	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Disadvantaged	22.8	23.8	17.8	28.8	31.8	25.9	26.6	33.0	23.9	
Not disadvantaged	48.4	41.9	40.1	51.9	56.8	48.1	53.0	9.5	45.9	
Unknown	28.8	34.3	42.1	19.3	11.4	26.0	20.3	57.5	30.3	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.
(b)	Financially disadvantaged person.

Table 3.17: CACP targets for financially disadvantaged care recipients, by state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Packages for financially disadvantaged people	3,254	2,701	1,340	878	711	279	164	393	9,719	
Other packages	8,732	6,406	4,260	2,124	2,462	674	313	176	25,148	
Total	11,986	9,107	5,600	3,002	3,173	953	477	569	34,867	
	Per cent	
Packages for financially disadvantaged people	27.1	29.7	23.9	29.2	22.4	29.3	34.4	69.1	27.9	
Other packages	72.9	70.3	76.1	70.8	77.6	70.7	65.6	30.9	72.1	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.

Table 3.18: CACP recipients, financial hardship status by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/FDP(b) status	Major 
cities	Inner 
regional	Outer 
regional	Remote	Very
 remote	All 
regions	
	Number	
Females		 					
Disadvantaged	3,799	1,184	487	144	66	5,680	
Not disadvantaged	8,104	2,750	715	60	8	11,637	
Unknown	4,467	1,752	865	105	209	7,398	
Total females	16,370	5,686	2,067	309	283	24,715	
Males							
Disadvantaged	1,723	532	252	91	51	2,649	
Not disadvantaged	3,010	1,016	291	29	5	4,351	
Unknown	1,781	787	404	61	119	3,152	
Total males	6,514	2,335	947	181	175	10,152	
Persons							
Disadvantaged	5,522	1,716	739	235	117	8,329	
Not disadvantaged	11,114	3,766	1,006	89	13	15,988	
Unknown	6,248	2,539	1,265	166	328	10,550	
Total	22,884	8,021	3,014	490	458	34,867	
	Per cent	
Females							
Disadvantaged	23.2	20.8	23.6	46.6	23.3	23.0	
Not disadvantaged	49.5	48.4	34.6	19.4	2.8	47.1	
Unknown	27.3	30.8	41.8	34.0	73.9	29.9	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males							
Disadvantaged	26.5	22.8	26.6	50.3	29.1	26.1	
Not disadvantaged	46.2	43.5	30.7	16.0	2.9	42.9	
Unknown	27.3	33.7	42.7	33.7	68.0	31.0	
Total males 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons							
Disadvantaged	24.1	21.4	24.5	48.0	25.5	23.9	
Not disadvantaged	48.6	47.0	33.4	18.2	2.8	45.9	
Unknown	27.3	31.7	42.0	33.9	71.6	30.3	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 
(b)	Financially disadvantaged person.

Table 3.19: CACP admissions, age at admission by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 
30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
0–49	11	6	7	1	2	—	—	5	32	
50–54	8	14	10	7	1	—	—	5	45	
55–59	27	24	32	13	8	1	—	12	117	
60–64	71	62	43	29	13	5	1	16	240	
65–69	170	137	69	54	44	10	8	16	508	
70–74 	338	257	181	104	77	30	12	14	1,013	
75–79 	743	558	362	213	210	54	32	18	2,190	
80–84 	1,257	775	644	354	370	71	74	18	3,563	
85–89 	1,087	676	650	352	300	67	61	10	3,203	
90+ 	698	355	355	197	181	45	25	4	1,860	
Total females	4,410	2,864	2,353	1,324	1,206	283	213	118	12,771	
Males										
0–49	7	2	5	2	—	—	1	1	18	
50–54	8	14	3	5	7	—	2	5	44	
55–59	22	21	16	12	4	—	—	8	83	
60–64	55	49	38	22	14	2	2	16	198	
65–69	105	106	52	37	28	6	2	14	350	
70–74 	188	144	108	67	44	13	10	5	579	
75–79 	366	281	209	133	80	25	17	15	1,126	
80–84 	506	360	285	165	136	23	28	10	1,513	
85–89 	470	335	302	128	130	21	20	10	1,416	
90+ 	261	164	179	85	66	16	17	—	788	
Total males	1,988	1,476	1,197	656	509	106	99	84	6,115	
Persons										
0–49	18	8	12	3	2	—	1	6	50	
50–54	16	28	13	12	8	—	2	10	89	
55–59	49	45	48	25	12	1	—	20	200	
60–64	126	111	81	51	27	7	3	32	438	
65–69	275	243	121	91	72	16	10	30	858	
70–74 	526	401	289	171	121	43	22	19	1,592	
75–79 	1,109	839	571	346	290	79	49	33	3,316	
80–84 	1,763	1,135	929	519	506	94	102	28	5,076	
85–89 	1,557	1,011	952	480	430	88	81	20	4,619	
90+ 	959	519	534	282	247	61	42	4	2,648	
Total	6,398	4,340	3,550	1,980	1,715	389	312	202	18,886	
									(continued)

Table 3.19 (continued): CACP admissions, age at admission by sex and state/territory(a), 
1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Per cent	
Females										
0–49	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.2	—	—	4.2	0.3	
50–54	0.2	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.1	—	—	4.2	0.4	
55–59	0.6	0.8	1.4	1.0	0.7	0.4	—	10.2	0.9	
60–64	1.6	2.2	1.8	2.2	1.1	1.8	0.5	13.6	1.9	
65–69	3.9	4.8	2.9	4.1	3.6	3.5	3.8	13.6	4.0	
70–74 	7.7	9.0	7.7	7.9	6.4	10.6	5.6	11.9	7.9	
75–79 	16.8	19.5	15.4	16.1	17.4	19.1	15.0	15.3	17.1	
80–84 	28.5	27.1	27.4	26.7	30.7	25.1	34.7	15.3	27.9	
85–89 	24.6	23.6	27.6	26.6	24.9	23.7	28.6	8.5	25.1	
90+ 	15.8	12.4	15.1	14.9	15.0	15.9	11.7	3.4	14.6	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
0–49	0.4	0.1	0.4	0.3	—	—	1.0	1.2	0.3	
50–54	0.4	0.9	0.3	0.8	1.4	—	2.0	6.0	0.7	
55–59	1.1	1.4	1.3	1.8	0.8	—	—	9.5	1.4	
60–64	2.8	3.3	3.2	3.4	2.8	1.9	2.0	19.0	3.2	
65–69	5.3	7.2	4.3	5.6	5.5	5.7	2.0	16.7	5.7	
70–74 	9.5	9.8	9.0	10.2	8.6	12.3	10.1	6.0	9.5	
75–79 	18.4	19.0	17.5	20.3	15.7	23.6	17.2	17.9	18.4	
80–84 	25.5	24.4	23.8	25.2	26.7	21.7	28.3	11.9	24.7	
85–89 	23.6	22.7	25.2	19.5	25.5	19.8	20.2	11.9	23.2	
90+ 	13.1	11.1	15.0	13.0	13.0	15.1	17.2	—	12.9	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
0–49	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.1	—	0.3	3.0	0.3	
50–54	0.3	0.6	0.4	0.6	0.5	—	0.6	5.0	0.5	
55–59	0.8	1.0	1.4	1.3	0.7	0.3	—	9.9	1.1	
60–64	2.0	2.6	2.3	2.6	1.6	1.8	1.0	15.8	2.3	
65–69	4.3	5.6	3.4	4.6	4.2	4.1	3.2	14.9	4.5	
70–74 	8.2	9.2	8.1	8.6	7.1	11.1	7.1	9.4	8.4	
75–79 	17.3	19.3	16.1	17.5	16.9	20.3	15.7	16.3	17.6	
80–84 	27.6	26.2	26.2	26.2	29.5	24.2	32.7	13.9	26.9	
85–89 	24.3	23.3	26.8	24.2	25.1	22.6	26.0	9.9	24.5	
90+ 	15.0	12.0	15.0	14.2	14.4	15.7	13.5	2.0	14.0	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.

Table 3.20: CACP separations, separation mode by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 
30 June 2007
Sex/separation mode	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Death	584	379	297	189	136	36	32	27	1,680	
To hospital	187	42	142	75	32	11	4	3	496	
To residential aged care	1,786	1,220	935	520	541	136	74	22	5,234	
To other CACP	290	227	123	83	77	12	15	22	849	
Other community/holiday	243	128	96	70	86	10	14	7	654	
Other	677	398	333	182	138	29	42	13	1,812	
Total females	3,767	2,394	1,926	1,119	1,010	234	181	94	10,725	
Males										
Death	396	341	218	127	78	22	21	28	1,231	
To hospital	91	24	72	49	16	6	6	4	268	
To residential aged care	659	614	363	205	203	40	34	12	2,130	
To other CACP	110	107	60	47	31	1	4	13	373	
Other community/holiday	100	57	52	29	35	4	7	5	289	
Other	275	205	160	81	50	7	24	17	819	
Total males	1,631	1,348	925	538	413	80	96	79	5,110	
Persons										
Death	980	720	515	316	214	58	53	55	2,911	
To hospital	278	66	214	124	48	17	10	7	764	
To residential aged care	2,445	1,834	1,298	725	744	176	108	34	7,364	
To other CACP	400	334	183	130	108	13	19	35	1,222	
Other community/holiday	343	185	148	99	121	14	21	12	943	
Other	952	603	493	263	188	36	66	30	2,631	
Total	5,398	3,742	2,851	1,657	1,423	314	277	173	15,835	
	Per cent	
Females										
Death	15.5	15.8	15.4	16.9	13.5	15.4	17.7	28.7	15.7	
To hospital	5.0	1.8	7.4	6.7	3.2	4.7	2.2	3.2	4.6	
To residential aged care	47.4	51.0	48.5	46.5	53.6	58.1	40.9	23.4	48.8	
To other CACP	7.7	9.5	6.4	7.4	7.6	5.1	8.3	23.4	7.9	
Other community/holiday	6.5	5.3	5.0	6.3	8.5	4.3	7.7	7.4	6.1	
Other	18.0	16.6	17.3	16.3	13.7	12.4	23.2	13.8	16.9	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Death	24.3	25.3	23.6	23.6	18.9	27.5	21.9	35.4	24.1	
To hospital	5.6	1.8	7.8	9.1	3.9	7.5	6.3	5.1	5.2	
To residential aged care	40.4	45.5	39.2	38.1	49.2	50.0	35.4	15.2	41.7	
To other CACP	6.7	7.9	6.5	8.7	7.5	1.3	4.2	16.5	7.3	
Other community/holiday	6.1	4.2	5.6	5.4	8.5	5.0	7.3	6.3	5.7	
Other	6.1	4.2	5.6	5.4	8.5	5.0	7.3	6.3	5.7	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Death	18.2	19.2	18.1	19.1	15.0	18.5	19.1	31.8	18.4	
To hospital	5.2	1.8	7.5	7.5	3.4	5.4	3.6	4.0	4.8	
To residential aged care	45.3	49.0	45.5	43.8	52.3	56.1	39.0	19.7	46.5	
To other CACP	7.4	8.9	6.4	7.8	7.6	4.1	6.9	20.2	7.7	
Other community/holiday	6.4	4.9	5.2	6.0	8.5	4.5	7.6	6.9	6.0	
Other	17.6	16.1	17.3	15.9	13.2	11.5	23.8	17.3	16.6	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.

Table 3.21: CACP separations, length of stay by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Sex/length of stay	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
<4 weeks	139	68	104	67	28	7	12	1	426	
4 to <8 weeks	209	113	146	82	52	6	5	—	613	
8 to <13 weeks	284	153	162	93	85	16	16	3	812	
13 to <26 weeks	531	335	283	176	139	42	28	7	1,541	
26 to <39 weeks	374	262	200	113	120	16	27	5	1,117	
39 to <52 weeks	331	217	172	100	72	15	20	11	938	
1 to <2 years	775	489	343	229	205	46	37	20	2,144	
2 to <3 years	409	259	198	101	98	30	14	8	1,117	
3 to <4 years	255	178	107	57	94	19	9	12	731	
4 to <5 years	166	125	77	44	56	12	5	8	493	
5 to <6 years	125	98	72	35	22	6	4	5	367	
6+ years	169	97	62	22	39	19	4	14	426	
Total females	3,767	2,394	1,926	1,119	1,010	234	181	94	10,725	
Males										
<4 weeks	85	48	73	39	16	2	6	—	269	
4 to <8 weeks	112	79	79	54	19	5	11	2	361	
8 to <13 weeks	131	91	71	46	26	3	6	3	377	
13 to <26 weeks	255	177	158	85	71	11	19	6	782	
26 to <39 weeks	187	152	100	65	41	10	6	7	568	
39 to <52 weeks	141	129	70	42	33	5	10	12	442	
1 to <2 years	268	311	165	102	71	15	21	17	970	
2 to <3 years	176	142	86	38	56	11	9	12	530	
3 to <4 years	98	91	52	26	43	4	4	6	324	
4 to <5 years	65	61	27	20	12	8	1	3	197	
5 to <6 years	63	36	22	14	9	1	—	6	151	
6+ years	50	31	22	7	16	5	3	5	139	
Total males	1,631	1,348	925	538	413	80	96	79	5,110	
Persons										
<4 weeks	224	116	177	106	44	9	18	1	695	
4 to <8 weeks	321	192	225	136	71	11	16	2	974	
8 to <13 weeks	415	244	233	139	111	19	22	6	1,189	
13 to <26 weeks	786	512	441	261	210	53	47	13	2,323	
26 to <39 weeks	561	414	300	178	161	26	33	12	1,685	
39 to <52 weeks	472	346	242	142	105	20	30	23	1,380	
1 to <2 years	1,043	800	508	331	276	61	58	37	3,114	
2 to <3 years	585	401	284	139	154	41	23	20	1,647	
3 to <4 years	353	269	159	83	137	23	13	18	1,055	
4 to <5 years	231	186	104	64	68	20	6	11	690	
5 to <6 years	188	134	94	49	31	7	4	11	518	
6+ years	219	128	84	29	55	24	7	19	565	
Total	5,398	3,742	2,851	1,657	1,423	314	277	173	15,835	
									(continued)

Table 3.21 (continued): CACP separations, length of stay by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007	
Sex/length of stay	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Per cent	
Females										
<4 weeks	3.7	2.8	5.4	6.0	2.8	3.0	6.6	1.1	4.0	
4 to <8 weeks	5.5	4.7	7.6	7.3	5.1	2.6	2.8	—	5.7	
8 to <13 weeks	7.5	6.4	8.4	8.3	8.4	6.8	8.8	3.2	7.6	
13 to <26 weeks	14.1	14.0	14.7	15.7	13.8	17.9	15.5	7.4	14.4	
26 to <39 weeks	9.9	10.9	10.4	10.1	11.9	6.8	14.9	5.3	10.4	
39 to <52 weeks	8.8	9.1	8.9	8.9	7.1	6.4	11.0	11.7	8.7	
1 to <2 years	20.6	20.4	17.8	20.5	20.3	19.7	20.4	21.3	20.0	
2 to <3 years	10.9	10.8	10.3	9.0	9.7	12.8	7.7	8.5	10.4	
3 to <4 years	6.8	7.4	5.6	5.1	9.3	8.1	5.0	12.8	6.8	
4 to <5 years	4.4	5.2	4.0	3.9	5.5	5.1	2.8	8.5	4.6	
5 to <6 years	3.3	4.1	3.7	3.1	2.2	2.6	2.2	5.3	3.4	
6+ years	4.5	4.1	3.2	2.0	3.9	8.1	2.2	14.9	4.0	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
<4 weeks	5.2	3.6	7.9	7.2	3.9	2.5	6.3	—	5.3	
4 to <8 weeks	6.9	5.9	8.5	10.0	4.6	6.3	11.5	2.5	7.1	
8 to <13 weeks	8.0	6.8	7.7	8.6	6.3	3.8	6.3	3.8	7.4	
13 to <26 weeks	15.6	13.1	17.1	15.8	17.2	13.8	19.8	7.6	15.3	
26 to <39 weeks	11.5	11.3	10.8	12.1	9.9	12.5	6.3	8.9	11.1	
39 to <52 weeks	8.6	9.6	7.6	7.8	8.0	6.3	10.4	15.2	8.6	
1 to <2 years	16.4	23.1	17.8	19.0	17.2	18.8	21.9	21.5	19.0	
2 to <3 years	10.8	10.5	9.3	7.1	13.6	13.8	9.4	15.2	10.4	
3 to <4 years	6.0	6.8	5.6	4.8	10.4	5.0	4.2	7.6	6.3	
4 to <5 years	4.0	4.5	2.9	3.7	2.9	10.0	1.0	3.8	3.9	
5 to <6 years	3.9	2.7	2.4	2.6	2.2	1.3	—	7.6	3.0	
6+ years	3.1	2.3	2.4	1.3	3.9	6.3	3.1	6.3	2.7	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
<4 weeks	4.1	3.1	6.2	6.4	3.1	2.9	6.5	0.6	4.4	
4 to <8 weeks	5.9	5.1	7.9	8.2	5.0	3.5	5.8	1.2	6.2	
8 to <13 weeks	7.7	6.5	8.2	8.4	7.8	6.1	7.9	3.5	7.5	
13 to <26 weeks	14.6	13.7	15.5	15.8	14.8	16.9	17.0	7.5	14.7	
26 to <39 weeks	10.4	11.1	10.5	10.7	11.3	8.3	11.9	6.9	10.6	
39 to <52 weeks	8.7	9.2	8.5	8.6	7.4	6.4	10.8	13.3	8.7	
1 to <2 years	19.3	21.4	17.8	20.0	19.4	19.4	20.9	21.4	19.7	
2 to <3 years	10.8	10.7	10.0	8.4	10.8	13.1	8.3	11.6	10.4	
3 to <4 years	6.5	7.2	5.6	5.0	9.6	7.3	4.7	10.4	6.7	
4 to <5 years	4.3	5.0	3.6	3.9	4.8	6.4	2.2	6.4	4.4	
5 to <6 years	3.5	3.6	3.3	3.0	2.2	2.2	1.4	6.4	3.3	
6+ years	4.1	3.4	2.9	1.8	3.9	7.6	2.5	11.0	3.6	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.

Table 3.22: CACP separations, length of stay by separation mode, 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Length of stay	Death	To hospital	To residential aged care	To other CACP outlet	Other community/ holiday	Other	Total	
	Number	
<4 weeks	118	38	199	43	43	254	695	
4 to <8 weeks	193	78	347	52	47	257	974	
8 to <13 weeks	183	57	518	79	64	288	1,189	
13 to <26 weeks	387	111	1,096	150	144	435	2,323	
26 to <39 weeks	283	79	810	111	103	299	1,685	
39 to <52 weeks	234	58	724	100	93	171	1,380	
1 to <2 years	520	150	1,593	276	195	380	3,114	
2 to <3 years	343	67	782	161	92	202	1,647	
3 to <4 years	216	41	499	98	62	139	1,055	
4 to <5 years	167	27	316	52	45	83	690	
5 to <6 years	125	27	235	48	23	60	518	
6+ years	142	31	245	52	32	63	565	
Total	2,911	764	7,364	1,222	943	2,631	15,835	
	Per cent (column)	
<4 weeks	4.1	5.0	2.7	3.5	4.6	9.7	4.4	
4 to <8 weeks	6.6	10.2	4.7	4.3	5.0	9.8	6.2	
8 to <13 weeks	6.3	7.5	7.0	6.5	6.8	10.9	7.5	
13 to <26 weeks	13.3	14.5	14.9	12.3	15.3	16.5	14.7	
26 to <39 weeks	9.7	10.3	11.0	9.1	10.9	11.4	10.6	
39 to <52 weeks	8.0	7.6	9.8	8.2	9.9	6.5	8.7	
1 to <2 years	17.9	19.6	21.6	22.6	20.7	14.4	19.7	
2 to <3 years	11.8	8.8	10.6	13.2	9.8	7.7	10.4	
3 to <4 years	7.4	5.4	6.8	8.0	6.6	5.3	6.7	
4 to <5 years	5.7	3.5	4.3	4.3	4.8	3.2	4.4	
5 to <6 years	4.3	3.5	3.2	3.9	2.4	2.3	3.3	
6+ years	4.9	4.1	3.3	4.3	3.4	2.4	3.6	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
	Per cent (row)	
<4 weeks	17.0	5.5	28.6	6.2	6.2	36.5	100.0	
4 to <8 weeks	19.8	8.0	35.6	5.3	4.8	26.4	100.0	
8 to <13 weeks	15.4	4.8	43.6	6.6	5.4	24.2	100.0	
13 to <26 weeks	16.7	4.8	47.2	6.5	6.2	18.7	100.0	
26 to <39 weeks	16.8	4.7	48.1	6.6	6.1	17.7	100.0	
39 to <52 weeks	17.0	4.2	52.5	7.2	6.7	12.4	100.0	
1 to <2 years	16.7	4.8	51.2	8.9	6.3	12.2	100.0	
2 to <3 years	20.8	4.1	47.5	9.8	5.6	12.3	100.0	
3 to <4 years	20.5	3.9	47.3	9.3	5.9	13.2	100.0	
4 to <5 years	24.2	3.9	45.8	7.5	6.5	12.0	100.0	
5 to <6 years	24.1	5.2	45.4	9.3	4.4	11.6	100.0	
6+ years	25.1	5.5	43.4	9.2	5.7	11.2	100.0	
Total	18.4	4.8	46.5	7.7	6.0	16.6	100.0	
4	EACH recipients
The EACH program provides the equivalent of high-level residential care to people living in their homes in the community. It provides a similar range of services to care recipients as CACPs, with the addition of nursing and allied health services. Recipients need approval from an Aged Care Assessment Team to access an EACH package. Additional high-level packages for people with behaviours of concern and psychological symptoms associated with dementia are now provided by the EACH Dementia program (see Chapter 5).
In 2006–07, 4,594 individuals who were eligible to receive high-level residential aged care received assistance to stay in their own homes through assistance provided by around 3,300 EACH packages (Table A6). Of these, 2,999 were receiving assistance at 30 June 2007, an increase of 868 (41%) compared with the number of recipients at 30 June 2006. However, this is still a small program, which limits the level of analysis that is sensible to attempt at this point. It is important to note that the care recipient profile may be relatively unstable while the program size is relatively small. The characteristics of EACH recipients in 5 years time may be quite different in some respects from those of the current service population. 
4.1 Location
The distributions of the 2,999 EACH package recipients at 30 June 2007 across states and territories were New South Wales (32%), Victoria (28%), Queensland (16%), South Australia (9%) and Western Australia (8%) (Table 4.1). The Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania and the Northern Territory all had small numbers of recipients; 78 (3%), 75 (3%), and 58 (2%), respectively. The majority of EACH package recipients (67%) were located in major cities, with 24% in inner regional areas and 9% in outer regional areas. A small number of clients were located in remote areas (12 clients, 0.4%) (Table 4.3). 
4.2 Age and sex distribution
At 30 June 2007, 1,868 (62%) EACH package recipients were women and 1,131 (38%) were men (Table 4.1). This sex profile was similar across most states and territories ranging from 58% to 67% women, with the exception of the Northern Territory, where there were 27 male (47%) and 31 (53%) female EACH recipients. 
Forty-seven per cent of EACH package recipients were aged less than 80 years. Male care recipients were younger than females, with 56% of males less than 80 years compared with 41% of female recipients. EACH package recipients had a younger age profile than CACP recipients, with only 35% of CACP care recipients aged under 80 years. About 7% of EACH package recipients were aged under 65 years and under 1% were under the age of 50 years (Table 4.1; Figure 4.1).
  Figure 4.1: Age and sex profile of EACH package recipients, 30 June 2007
Two horizontal bar charts showing age group (years) on y-axis and EACHpackage recipients (per cent) on x-axis. Fist chart shows males, second shows females.
Source: Table 4.1.

4.3 Birthplace and preferred language
Birthplace and preferred language were recorded for almost all care recipients—90% of recipients at 30 June 2007 were born either in Australia (63%), the United Kingdom and Ireland (10%) or European countries (17%). Although 82% of recipients preferred to speak English, 13% preferred to speak a European language (tables 4.4 and 4.5). 
People from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds where English is not the main language spoken are defined as those born in countries other than Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Canada, South Africa and the United States of America. For people in this group aged 75 years and over, age-specific usage per 1,000 was around 50% higher when compared with Australian-born and English-speaking overseas-born recipients (Table 4.11). The small numbers need to be taken into account for this measure.
4.4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander care recipients
Thirty-nine out of the 2,999 EACH package recipients identified as being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples and 8 recipients were of unknown status (tables 4.7 and 4.8). The low representation of Indigenous care recipients is likely to be partly influenced by the very small number of packages available in remote areas and the absence of packages in very remote areas (see Table 2.3). However, the number of packages available in remote areas has increased from 4 at 30 June 2006 to 24 at 30 June 2007.
Indigenous care recipients had a younger age profile than other Australians, with 54% aged under 70 years compared with 15% for non-Indigenous EACH package recipients (Table 4.9).
4.5 Living arrangements
The question that care recipients were asked in relation to their living arrangements at the time of their application for a package was: ‘With whom do you normally live?’ At 30 June 2007, 70% of EACH package recipients were living with family and 2% were living with others. This high percentage of care recipients who did not live alone (72%) reflects the importance of informal care arrangements in supporting high-care recipients in their home. This care is more commonly provided by family. However, there was still a significant proportion of these high-care recipients (27%) who lived alone at the time they started receiving assistance in the form of an EACH package (Table 4.6). Victoria had the lowest percentage of recipients who lived alone (20%), while South Australia and Tasmania had the highest (44% and 41%, respectively). Over time, living arrangements may change, and these changes will not be reflected in this data. But it should be noted that 73% of care recipients had been receiving assistance for less than 1 year, so this information is relatively recent for most care recipients. 
4.6 Carer status
Carers are an important factor in determining the care plan for high-care package recipients and this information is regularly updated (see Appendix 2). Most EACH package recipients (90%) received assistance from a carer; 71% had a co-resident carer, 19% had a carer who did not live with the care recipient, and 10% of care recipients did not have a carer. A slightly higher percentage of male care recipients had a carer (92%) than females (89%), but the main difference was the proportion of carers who lived with the care recipient; 79% of carers of male EACH package recipients lived with the care recipient compared with 66% of carers of female care recipients (tables 4.12 and 4.13).
The proportion of care recipients with a carer ranged from 95% in Tasmania to 79% in the Northern Territory. Victoria had the highest percentage of care recipients with a co‑resident carer (77%), while South Australia and Tasmania had the lowest percentage of care recipients with a co-resident carer (49% and 56%, respectively) (Table 4.12).
4.7 Admissions and separations
The were 2,518 admissions to EACH packages in the period from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007, of which 62% were women and 38% were men. Of these recipients, 61% of women and 48% of men were aged 80 years and over (Table 4.15). 
There were 1,655 separations from EACH packages between 1 July 2006 and 30 June 2007. The main reasons for separation were admission to residential aged care (43%), death (37%), admission to hospital (8%) and the recipient withdrawing from the service (4%). A small number of care recipients changed to other forms of community care (3%), most of whom moved onto EACH Dementia packages (Table 4.16). Other reasons for stopping receipt of an EACH package included the care recipient moving out of the area and the provider no longer providing service to the care recipient. These figures should be interpreted cautiously, as the program has been running for a relatively short period of time. 
For separations between 1 July 2006 and 30 June 2007, 28% of separations had a length of stay of less than 3 months, and 20% of separations were between 3 and 6 months. Over half (52%) had a length of stay of at least 6 months and 27% of separations had length of stay 1 year or more (Table 4.17).

 

 

 

Table 4.1: EACH package recipients, age by sex and state/territory, 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
0–49	3	4	—	—	—	1	—	—	8	
50–54	4	3	5	2	—	—	—	—	14	
55–59	6	13	6	—	—	2	—	—	27	
60–64	20	20	8	5	4	2	4	2	65	
65–69	47	41	25	9	6	2	3	3	136	
70–74	68	66	34	18	12	5	5	6	214	
75–79	102	101	47	21	22	6	8	2	309	
80–84	122	89	58	35	48	9	9	7	377	
85–89	116	82	62	32	40	15	6	5	358	
90–94	91	57	40	17	31	4	8	3	251	
95+	36	25	10	15	16	2	2	3	109	
Total females	615	501	295	154	179	48	45	31	1,868	
Males										
0–49	3	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	4	
50–54	4	5	3	1	—	—	—	—	13	
55–59	1	9	7	—	—	1	2	3	23	
60–64	10	23	5	5	1	2	5	1	52	
65–69	26	41	27	13	9	6	2	5	129	
70–74	61	68	17	10	9	4	1	3	173	
75–79	94	58	28	13	28	3	9	4	237	
80–84	55	81	42	17	13	5	8	6	227	
85–89	55	44	25	10	15	3	4	2	158	
90–94	35	15	15	5	8	2	2	2	84	
95+	8	5	8	3	5	1	—	1	31	
Total males	352	349	177	77	89	27	33	27	1,131	
Persons										
0–49	6	4	—	—	1	1	—	—	12	
50–54	8	8	8	3	—	—	—	—	27	
55–59	7	22	13	—	—	3	2	3	50	
60–64	30	43	13	10	5	4	9	3	117	
65–69	73	82	52	22	15	8	5	8	265	
70–74	129	134	51	28	21	9	6	9	387	
75–79	196	159	75	34	50	9	17	6	546	
80–84	177	170	100	52	61	14	17	13	604	
85–89	171	126	87	42	55	18	10	7	516	
90–94	126	72	55	22	39	6	10	5	335	
95+	44	30	18	18	21	3	2	4	140	
Total	967	850	472	231	268	75	78	58	2,999	
									(continued)

Table 4.1 (continued): EACH package recipients, age by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007	
Sex/age (years)	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Per cent	
Females										
0–49	0.5	0.8	—	—	—	2.1	—	—	0.4	
50–54	0.7	0.6	1.7	1.3	—	—	—	—	0.7	
55–59	1.0	2.6	2.0	—	—	4.2	—	—	1.4	
60–64	3.3	4.0	2.7	3.2	2.2	4.2	8.9	6.5	3.5	
65–69	7.6	8.2	8.5	5.8	3.4	4.2	6.7	9.7	7.3	
70–74	11.1	13.2	11.5	11.7	6.7	10.4	11.1	19.4	11.5	
75–79	16.6	20.2	15.9	13.6	12.3	12.5	17.8	6.5	16.5	
80–84	19.8	17.8	19.7	22.7	26.8	18.8	20.0	22.6	20.2	
85–89	18.9	16.4	21.0	20.8	22.3	31.3	13.3	16.1	19.2	
90–94	14.8	11.4	13.6	11.0	17.3	8.3	17.8	9.7	13.4	
95+	5.9	5.0	3.4	9.7	8.9	4.2	4.4	9.7	5.8	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
0–49	0.9	—	—	—	1.1	—	—	—	0.4	
50–54	1.1	1.4	1.7	1.3	—	—	—	—	1.1	
55–59	0.3	2.6	4.0	—	—	3.7	6.1	11.1	2.0	
60–64	2.8	6.6	2.8	6.5	1.1	7.4	15.2	3.7	4.6	
65–69	7.4	11.7	15.3	16.9	10.1	22.2	6.1	18.5	11.4	
70–74	17.3	19.5	9.6	13.0	10.1	14.8	3.0	11.1	15.3	
75–79	26.7	16.6	15.8	16.9	31.5	11.1	27.3	14.8	21.0	
80–84	15.6	23.2	23.7	22.1	14.6	18.5	24.2	22.2	20.1	
85–89	15.6	12.6	14.1	13.0	16.9	11.1	12.1	7.4	14.0	
90–94	9.9	4.3	8.5	6.5	9.0	7.4	6.1	7.4	7.4	
95+	2.3	1.4	4.5	3.9	5.6	3.7	—	3.7	2.7	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
0–49	0.6	0.5	—	—	0.4	1.3	—	—	0.4	
50–54	0.8	0.9	1.7	1.3	—	—	—	—	0.9	
55–59	0.7	2.6	2.8	—	—	4.0	2.6	5.2	1.7	
60–64	3.1	5.1	2.8	4.3	1.9	5.3	11.5	5.2	3.9	
65–69	7.5	9.6	11.0	9.5	5.6	10.7	6.4	13.8	8.8	
70–74	13.3	15.8	10.8	12.1	7.8	12.0	7.7	15.5	12.9	
75–79	20.3	18.7	15.9	14.7	18.7	12.0	21.8	10.3	18.2	
80–84	18.3	20.0	21.2	22.5	22.8	18.7	21.8	22.4	20.1	
85–89	17.7	14.8	18.4	18.2	20.5	24.0	12.8	12.1	17.2	
90–94	13.0	8.5	11.7	9.5	14.6	8.0	12.8	8.6	11.2	
95+	4.6	3.5	3.8	7.8	7.8	4.0	2.6	6.9	4.7	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.	

Table 4.2: EACH package recipients, age by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007		
Sex/age (years)	Major
 cities	Inner
 regional	Outer
 regional	Remote	Very
remote	All regions	
	Number	
Females							
0–49	1	5	2	—	—	8	
50–54	10	4	—	—	—	14	
55–59	14	13	—	—	—	27	
60–64	46	13	5	1	—	65	
65–69	90	32	14	—	—	136	
70–74	131	61	19	3	—	214	
75–79	201	83	25	—	—	309	
80–84	250	90	36	1	—	377	
85–89	250	78	30	—	—	358	
90–94 	175	50	26	—	—	251	
95+	82	14	13	—	—	109	
Total females	1,250	443	170	5	—	1,868	
Males							
0–49	1	1	2	—	—	4	
50–54	7	3	3	—	—	13	
55–59	11	6	3	3	—	23	
60–64	39	8	5	—	—	52	
65–69	85	35	8	1	—	129	
70–74	120	37	15	1	—	173	
75–79	151	66	20	—	—	237	
80–84	153	49	24	1	—	227	
85–89	111	30	16	1	—	158	
90–94 	49	26	9	—	—	84	
95+	21	4	6	—	—	31	
Total males	748	265	111	7	—	1,131	
Persons							
0–49	2	6	4	—	—	12	
50–54	17	7	3	—	—	27	
55–59	25	19	3	3	—	50	
60–64	85	21	10	1	—	117	
65–69	175	67	22	1	—	265	
70–74	251	98	34	4	—	387	
75–79	352	149	45	—	—	546	
80–84	403	139	60	2	—	604	
85–89	361	108	46	1	—	516	
90–94 	224	76	35	—	—	335	
95+	103	18	19	—	—	140	
Total	1,998	708	281	12	—	2,999	
(continued)

Table 4.2 (continued): EACH package recipients, age by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	Major
 cities	Inner
 regional	Outer
 regional	Remote	Very
 remote	All
 regions	
	Per cent	
Females							
0–49	0.1	1.1	1.2	—	—	0.4	
50–54	0.8	0.9	—	—	—	0.7	
55–59	1.1	2.9	—	—	—	1.4	
60–64	3.7	2.9	2.9	20.0	—	3.5	
65–69	7.2	7.2	8.2	—	—	7.3	
70–74	10.5	13.8	11.2	60.0	—	11.5	
75–79	16.1	18.7	14.7	—	—	16.5	
80–84	20.0	20.3	21.2	20.0	—	20.2	
85–89	20.0	17.6	17.6	—	—	19.2	
90–94 	14.0	11.3	15.3	—	—	13.4	
95+	6.6	3.2	7.6	—	—	5.8	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
Males							
0–49	0.1	0.4	1.8	—	—	0.4	
50–54	0.9	1.1	2.7	—	—	1.1	
55–59	1.5	2.3	2.7	42.9	—	2.0	
60–64	5.2	3.0	4.5	—	—	4.6	
65–69	11.4	13.2	7.2	14.3	—	11.4	
70–74	16.0	14.0	13.5	14.3	—	15.3	
75–79	20.2	24.9	18.0	—	—	21.0	
80–84	20.5	18.5	21.6	14.3	—	20.1	
85–89	14.8	11.3	14.4	14.3	—	14.0	
90–94 	6.6	9.8	8.1	—	—	7.4	
95+	2.8	1.5	5.4	—	—	2.7	
Total males 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
Persons							
0–49	0.1	0.8	1.4	—	—	0.4	
50–54	0.9	1.0	1.1	—	—	0.9	
55–59	1.3	2.7	1.1	25.0	—	1.7	
60–64	4.3	3.0	3.6	8.3	—	3.9	
65–69 	8.8	9.5	7.8	8.3	—	8.8	
70–74 	12.6	13.8	12.1	33.3	—	12.9	
75–79 	17.6	21.0	16.0	—	—	18.2	
80–84 	20.2	19.6	21.4	16.7	—	20.1	
85–89 	18.1	15.3	16.4	8.3	—	17.2	
90–94 	11.2	10.7	12.5	—	—	11.2	
95+	5.2	2.5	6.8	—	—	4.7	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 

Table 4.3: EACH package recipients, remoteness(a) by state/territory, 30 June 2007
State/territory	Major
 cities	Inner
 regional	Outer 
regional	Remote	Very
 remote	All
 regions	
	Number	
NSW	644	237	86	—	—	967	
Vic	635	169	46	—	. .	850	
Qld	247	152	72	1	—	472	
WA	195	29	5	2	—	231	
SA	199	46	23	—	—	268	
Tas	. .	75	—	—	—	75	
ACT	78	—	. .	. .	. .	78	
NT	. .	. .	49	9	—	58	
Australia	1,998	708	281	12	—	2,999	
	Per cent (column)	
NSW	32.2	33.5	30.6	—	—	32.2	
Vic	31.8	23.9	16.4	—	. .	28.3	
Qld	12.4	21.5	25.6	—	—	15.7	
WA	9.8	4.1	1.8	—	—	7.7	
SA	10.0	6.5	8.2	—	—	8.9	
Tas	. .	10.6	—	—	—	2.5	
ACT	3.9	—	. .	. .	. .	2.6	
NT	. .	. .	17.4	—	—	1.9	
Australia	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	—	100.0	
	Per cent (row)	
NSW	66.6	24.5	8.9	—	—	100.0	
Vic	74.7	19.9	5.4	—	. .	100.0	
Qld	52.3	32.2	15.3	0.2	—	100.0	
WA	84.4	12.6	2.2	0.9	—	100.0	
SA	74.3	17.2	8.6	—	—	100.0	
Tas	. .	100.0	—	—	—	100.0	
ACT	100.0	—	. .	. .	. .	100.0	
NT	. .	. .	84.5	15.5	—	100.0	
Australia	66.6	23.6	9.4	0.4	—	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 

Table 4.4: EACH package recipients, birthplace(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007 
Sex/birthplace	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Australia	443	284	221	65	115	39	31	16	1,214	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	6	8	7	—	1	—	—	—	22	
UK and Ireland	51	40	31	31	29	4	6	5	197	
North/West Europe	18	11	11	9	7	2	2	1	61	
South/East Europe	47	116	13	25	25	3	4	4	237	
North Africa/Middle East	16	13	1	3	1	—	—	—	34	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	—	2	2	6	—	—	—	—	10	
Southeast Asia	12	9	—	7	—	—	—	2	30	
Northeast Asia	9	6	3	1	1	—	1	2	23	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	8	8	3	7	—	—	1	—	27	
North America	—	1	3	—	—	—	—	—	4	
Other America/Caribbean	3	3	—	—	—	—	—	1	7	
Other	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Not stated/not classified	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	
Total females	615	501	295	154	179	48	45	31	1,868	
Males										
Australia	218	191	131	37	54	20	17	18	686	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	9	3	6	—	1	1	1	—	21	
UK and Ireland	22	28	20	14	14	2	3	4	107	
North/West Europe	12	11	7	5	4	2	2	—	43	
South/East Europe	39	81	6	14	12	1	6	1	160	
North Africa/Middle East	17	8	—	—	—	—	—	—	25	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	3	2	2	1	—	—	2	—	10	
Southeast Asia	14	8	—	1	3	—	—	4	30	
Northeast Asia	4	4	1	—	—	—	1	—	10	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	5	10	1	3	—	—	1	—	20	
North America	3	2	2	2	1	—	—	—	10	
Other America/Caribbean	3	1	1	—	—	—	—	—	5	
Other	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Not stated/not classified	3	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	4	
Total males	352	349	177	77	89	27	33	27	1,131	
Persons										
Australia	661	475	352	102	169	59	48	34	1,900	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	15	11	13	—	2	1	1	—	43	
UK and Ireland	73	68	51	45	43	6	9	9	304	
North/West Europe	30	22	18	14	11	4	4	1	104	
South/East Europe	86	197	19	39	37	4	10	5	397	
North Africa/Middle East	33	21	1	3	1	—	—	—	59	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	3	4	4	7	—	—	2	—	20	
Southeast Asia	26	17	—	8	3	—	—	6	60	
Northeast Asia	13	10	4	1	1	—	2	2	33	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	13	18	4	10	—	—	2	—	47	
North America	3	3	5	2	1	—	—	—	14	
Other America/Caribbean	6	4	1	—	—	—	—	1	12	
Other	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Not stated/not classified	5	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	6	
Total 	967	850	472	231	268	75	78	58	2,999	
								(continued)

Table 4.4 (continued): EACH package recipients, birthplace(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Sex/birthplace	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Per cent	
Females										
Australia	72.0	56.7	74.9	42.2	64.2	81.3	68.9	51.6	65.0	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	1.0	1.6	2.4	—	0.6	—	—	—	1.2	
UK and Ireland	8.3	8.0	10.5	20.1	16.2	8.3	13.3	16.1	10.5	
North/West Europe	2.9	2.2	3.7	5.8	3.9	4.2	4.4	3.2	3.3	
South/East Europe	7.6	23.2	4.4	16.2	14.0	6.3	8.9	12.9	12.7	
North Africa/Middle East	2.6	2.6	0.3	1.9	0.6	—	—	—	1.8	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	—	0.4	0.7	3.9	—	—	—	—	0.5	
Southeast Asia	2.0	1.8	—	4.5	—	—	—	6.5	1.6	
Northeast Asia	1.5	1.2	1.0	0.6	0.6	—	2.2	6.5	1.2	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	1.3	1.6	1.0	4.5	—	—	2.2	—	1.4	
North America	—	0.2	1.0	—	—	—	—	—	0.2	
Other America/Caribbean	0.5	0.6	—	—	—	—	—	3.2	0.4	
Other	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Not stated/not classified	0.3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Australia	61.9	54.7	74.0	48.1	60.7	74.1	51.5	66.7	60.7	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	2.6	0.9	3.4	—	1.1	3.7	3.0	—	1.9	
UK and Ireland	6.3	8.0	11.3	18.2	15.7	7.4	9.1	14.8	9.5	
North/West Europe	3.4	3.2	4.0	6.5	4.5	7.4	6.1	—	3.8	
South/East Europe	11.1	23.2	3.4	18.2	13.5	3.7	18.2	3.7	14.1	
North Africa/Middle East	4.8	2.3	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	0.9	0.6	1.1	1.3	—	—	6.1	—	0.9	
Southeast Asia	4.0	2.3	—	1.3	3.4	—	—	14.8	2.7	
Northeast Asia	1.1	1.1	0.6	—	—	—	3.0	—	0.9	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	1.4	2.9	0.6	3.9	—	—	3.0	—	1.8	
North America	0.9	0.6	1.1	2.6	1.1	—	—	—	0.9	
Other America/Caribbean	0.9	0.3	0.6	—	—	—	—	—	0.4	
Other	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Not stated/not classified	0.9	—	—	—	—	3.7	—	—	0.4	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Australia	68.4	55.9	74.6	44.2	63.1	78.7	61.5	58.6	63.4	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	1.6	1.3	2.8	—	0.7	1.3	1.3	—	1.4	
UK and Ireland	7.5	8.0	10.8	19.5	16.0	8.0	11.5	15.5	10.1	
North/West Europe	3.1	2.6	3.8	6.1	4.1	5.3	5.1	1.7	3.5	
South/East Europe	8.9	23.2	4.0	16.9	13.8	5.3	12.8	8.6	13.2	
North Africa/Middle East	3.4	2.5	0.2	1.3	0.4	—	—	—	2.0	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	0.3	0.5	0.8	3.0	—	—	2.6	—	0.7	
Southeast Asia	2.7	2.0	—	3.5	1.1	—	—	10.3	2.0	
Northeast Asia	1.3	1.2	0.8	0.4	0.4	—	2.6	3.4	1.1	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	1.3	2.1	0.8	4.3	—	—	2.6	—	1.6	
North America	0.3	0.4	1.1	0.9	0.4	—	—	—	0.5	
Other America/Caribbean	0.6	0.5	0.2	—	—	—	—	1.7	0.4	
Other	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Not stated/not classified	0.5	—	—	—	—	1.3	—	—	0.2	
Total 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	ABS 2007d.	
(b)	Refers to the location of the services.	

Table 4.5: EACH package recipients, preferred language(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Sex/preferred language	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Australian Indigenous	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
English	529	363	281	121	152	44	39	23	1,552	
Other Northern European	6	4	1	2	2	2	—	—	17	
Southern European	25	81	6	17	17	—	2	3	151	
Eastern European	17	24	3	7	6	2	3	1	63	
Southwest Asian and North African	13	6	—	1	1	—	—	—	21	
Southern Asian	3	4	1	1	—	—	1	—	10	
Southeast Asian	8	4	1	1	1	—	—	1	16	
Eastern Asian	12	8	1	2	—	—	—	3	26	
African (excluding North African)	—	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	
Oceanic	—	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	
Other	1	2	—	1	—	—	—	—	4	
Not stated	1	—	1	1	—	—	—	—	3	
Total females	615	501	295	154	179	48	45	31	1,868	
Males										
Australian Indigenous	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	3	
English	274	249	168	65	74	25	25	21	901	
Other Northern European	4	6	1	1	—	—	1	—	13	
Southern European	27	60	4	9	10	—	5	2	117	
Eastern European	10	15	2	1	2	1	—	—	31	
Southwest Asian and North African	15	5	—	—	—	—	—	—	20	
Southern Asian	5	2	—	1	—	—	—	—	8	
Southeast Asian	9	6	—	—	2	—	—	1	18	
Eastern Asian	7	5	1	—	—	—	1	—	14	
African (excluding North African)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Oceanic	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Other	1	1	—	—	—	—	1	—	3	
Not stated	—	—	1	—	1	1	—	—	3	
Total males	352	349	177	77	89	27	33	27	1,131	
Persons										
Australian Indigenous	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	3	
English	803	612	449	186	226	69	64	44	2,453	
Other Northern European	10	10	2	3	2	2	1	—	30	
Southern European	52	141	10	26	27	—	7	5	268	
Eastern European	27	39	5	8	8	3	3	1	94	
Southwest Asian and North African	28	11	—	1	1	—	—	—	41	
Southern Asian	8	6	1	2	—	—	1	—	18	
Southeast Asian	17	10	1	1	3	—	—	2	34	
Eastern Asian	19	13	2	2	—	—	1	3	40	
African (excluding North African)	—	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	
Oceanic	—	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	
Other	2	3	—	1	—	—	1	—	7	
Not stated	1	—	2	1	1	1	—	—	6	
Total 	967	850	472	231	268	75	78	58	2,999	
(continued)

Table 4.5 (continued): EACH package recipients, preferred language(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 
30 June 2007
Sex/preferred language	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Per cent	
Females										
Australian Indigenous	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
English	86.0	72.5	95.3	78.6	84.9	91.7	86.7	74.2	83.1	
Other Northern European	1.0	0.8	0.3	1.3	1.1	4.2	—	—	0.9	
Southern European	4.1	16.2	2.0	11.0	9.5	—	4.4	9.7	8.1	
Eastern European	2.8	4.8	1.0	4.5	3.4	4.2	6.7	3.2	3.4	
Southwest Asian and North African	2.1	1.2	—	0.6	0.6	—	—	—	1.1	
Southern Asian	0.5	0.8	0.3	0.6	—	—	2.2	—	0.5	
Southeast Asian	1.3	0.8	0.3	0.6	0.6	—	—	3.2	0.9	
Eastern Asian	2.0	1.6	0.3	1.3	—	—	—	9.7	1.4	
African (excluding North African)	—	0.4	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1	
Oceanic	—	0.6	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2	
Other	0.2	0.4	—	0.6	—	—	—	—	0.2	
Not stated	0.2	—	0.3	0.6	—	—	—	—	0.2	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Australian Indigenous	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	11.1	0.3	
English	77.8	71.3	94.9	84.4	83.1	92.6	75.8	77.8	79.7	
Other Northern European	1.1	1.7	0.6	1.3	—	—	3.0	—	1.1	
Southern European	7.7	17.2	2.3	11.7	11.2	—	15.2	7.4	10.3	
Eastern European	2.8	4.3	1.1	1.3	2.2	3.7	—	—	2.7	
Southwest Asian and North African	4.3	1.4	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8	
Southern Asian	1.4	0.6	—	1.3	—	—	—	—	0.7	
Southeast Asian	2.6	1.7	—	—	2.2	—	—	3.7	1.6	
Eastern Asian	2.0	1.4	0.6	—	—	—	3.0	—	1.2	
African (excluding North African)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Oceanic	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Other	0.3	0.3	—	—	—	—	3.0	—	0.3	
Not stated	—	—	0.6	—	1.1	3.7	—	—	0.3	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Australian Indigenous	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	5.2	0.1	
English	83.0	72.0	95.1	80.5	84.3	92.0	82.1	75.9	81.8	
Other Northern European	1.0	1.2	0.4	1.3	0.7	2.7	1.3	—	1.0	
Southern European	5.4	16.6	2.1	11.3	10.1	—	9.0	8.6	8.9	
Eastern European	2.8	4.6	1.1	3.5	3.0	4.0	3.8	1.7	3.1	
Southwest Asian and North African	2.9	1.3	—	0.4	0.4	—	—	—	1.4	
Southern Asian	0.8	0.7	0.2	0.9	—	—	1.3	—	0.6	
Southeast Asian	1.8	1.2	0.2	0.4	1.1	—	—	3.4	1.1	
Eastern Asian	2.0	1.5	0.4	0.9	—	—	1.3	5.2	1.3	
African (excluding North African)	—	0.2	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1	
Oceanic	—	0.4	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1	
Other	0.2	0.4	—	0.4	—	—	1.3	—	0.2	
Not stated	0.1	—	0.4	0.4	0.4	1.3	—	—	0.2	
Total 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	ABS 1997.	
(b)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.	

Table 4.6: EACH recipients, living arrangements by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/living arrangements	 NSW 	 Vic 	 Qld 	 WA 	 SA 	 Tas 	 ACT 	 NT 	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Lives alone	195	120	87	49	90	24	22	8	595	
Lives with family	388	359	202	102	84	23	22	23	1,203	
Lives with others	13	16	5	2	3	1	—	—	40	
Not applicable	19	6	1	1	2	—	1	—	30	
Total females	615	501	295	154	179	48	45	31	1,868	
Males										
Lives alone	51	50	43	12	29	7	4	9	205	
Lives with family	286	291	130	64	58	18	29	17	893	
Lives with others	9	6	2	1	—	—	—	1	19	
Not applicable	6	2	2	—	2	2	—	—	14	
Total males	352	349	177	77	89	27	33	27	1,131	
Persons										
Lives alone	246	170	130	61	119	31	26	17	800	
Lives with family	674	650	332	166	142	41	51	40	2,096	
Lives with others	22	22	7	3	3	1	—	1	59	
Not applicable	25	8	3	1	4	2	1	—	44	
Total 	967	850	472	231	268	75	78	58	2,999	
	Per cent	
Females										
Lives alone	31.7	24.0	29.5	31.8	50.3	50.0	48.9	25.8	31.9	
Lives with family	63.1	71.7	68.5	66.2	46.9	47.9	48.9	74.2	64.4	
Lives with others	2.1	3.2	1.7	1.3	1.7	2.1	—	—	2.1	
Not applicable	3.1	1.2	0.3	0.6	1.1	—	2.2	—	1.6	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Lives alone	14.5	14.3	24.3	15.6	32.6	25.9	12.1	33.3	18.1	
Lives with family	81.3	83.4	73.4	83.1	65.2	66.7	87.9	63.0	79.0	
Lives with others	2.6	1.7	1.1	1.3	—	—	—	3.7	1.7	
Not applicable	1.7	0.6	1.1	—	2.2	7.4	—	—	1.2	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Lives alone	25.4	20.0	27.5	26.4	44.4	41.3	33.3	29.3	26.7	
Lives with family	69.7	76.5	70.3	71.9	53.0	54.7	65.4	69.0	69.9	
Lives with others	2.3	2.6	1.5	1.3	1.1	1.3	—	1.7	2.0	
Not applicable	2.6	0.9	0.6	0.4	1.5	2.7	1.3	—	1.5	
Total 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. 
Note: Not applicable is used for people who are permanent residents of residential aged care, Multi-purpose Services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program, hospitals or other institutional settings. 						
Table 4.7: EACH package recipients, Indigenous status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/Indigenous status	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Indigenous	13	1	9	1	1	1	2	—	28	
Other Australian	602	500	282	153	178	47	43	31	1,836	
Unknown/not reported	—	—	4	—	—	—	—	—	4	
Total females	615	501	295	154	179	48	45	31	1,868	
Males										
Indigenous	4	3	—	—	—	—	—	4	11	
Other Australian	348	345	174	77	89	27	33	23	1,116	
Unknown/not reported	—	1	3	—	—	—	—	—	4	
Total males	352	349	177	77	89	27	33	27	1,131	
Persons										
Indigenous	17	4	9	1	1	1	2	4	39	
Other Australian	950	845	456	230	267	74	76	54	2,952	
Unknown/not reported	—	1	7	—	—	—	—	—	8	
Total	967	850	472	231	268	75	78	58	2,999	
	Per cent	
Females										
Indigenous	2.1	0.2	3.1	0.6	0.6	2.1	4.4	—	1.5	
Other Australian	97.9	99.8	95.6	99.4	99.4	97.9	95.6	100.0	98.3	
Unknown/not reported	—	—	1.4	—	—	—	—	—	0.2	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Indigenous	1.1	0.9	—	—	—	—	—	14.8	1.0	
Other Australian	98.9	98.9	98.3	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	85.2	98.7	
Unknown/not reported	—	0.3	1.7	—	—	—	—	—	0.4	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Indigenous	1.8	0.5	1.9	0.4	0.4	1.3	2.6	6.9	1.3	
Other Australian	98.2	99.4	96.6	99.6	99.6	98.7	97.4	93.1	98.4	
Unknown/not reported	—	0.1	1.5	—	—	—	—	—	0.3	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a) Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.

Table 4.8: EACH package recipients, Indigenous status by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/Indigenous status	Major
 cities	Inner
 regional	Outer
 regional	Remote 	Very
 remote	All
 regions	
	Number	
Females							
Indigenous	9	11	8	—	—	28	
Other Australians	1,238	431	162	5	—	1,836	
Unknown/not reported	3	1	—	—	—	4	
Total females	1,250	443	170	5	—	1,868	
Males							
Indigenous	3	3	4	1	—	11	
Other Australians	744	259	107	6	—	1,116	
Unknown/not reported	1	3	—	—	—	4	
Total males 	748	265	111	7	—	1,131	
Persons							
Indigenous	12	14	12	1	—	39	
Other Australians	1,982	690	269	11	—	2,952	
Unknown/not reported	4	4	—	—	—	8	
Total	1,998	708	281	12	—	2,999	
	Per cent	
Females							
Indigenous	0.7	2.5	4.7	—	—	1.5	
Other Australians	99.0	97.3	95.3	100.0	—	98.3	
Unknown/not reported	0.2	0.2	—	—	—	0.2	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
Males							
Indigenous	0.4	1.1	3.6	14.3	—	1.0	
Other Australians	99.5	97.7	96.4	85.7	—	98.7	
Unknown/not reported	0.1	1.1	—	—	—	0.4	
Total males 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
Persons							
Indigenous	0.6	2.0	4.3	8.3	—	1.3	
Other Australians	99.2	97.5	95.7	91.7	—	98.4	
Unknown/not reported	0.2	0.6	—	—	—	0.3	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 

 Table 4.9: EACH package recipients, Indigenous status by sex and age, 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	Indigenous		Other Australian		Unknown		Total care recipients	
	Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent	
Females												
0–49	2	7.1		6	0.3		—	—		8	0.4	
50–54	3	10.7		10	0.5		1	25.0		14	0.7	
55–59	2	7.1		25	1.4		—	—		27	1.4	
60–64	3	10.7		62	3.4		—	—		65	3.5	
65–69 	4	14.3		131	7.1		1	25.0		136	7.3	
70–74 	2	7.1		212	11.5		—	—		214	11.5	
75–79 	3	10.7		306	16.7		—	—		309	16.5	
80–84 	3	10.7		373	20.3		1	25.0		377	20.2	
85–89 	5	17.9		352	19.2		1	25.0		358	19.2	
90+ 	1	3.6		359	19.6		—	—		360	19.3	
Total females	28	100.0		1,836	100.0		4	100.0		1,868	100.0	
Males												
0–49	1	9.1		3	0.3		—	—		4	0.4	
50–54	—	—		13	1.2		—	—		13	1.1	
55–59	2	18.2		20	1.8		1	25.0		23	2.0	
60–64	3	27.3		49	4.4		—	—		52	4.6	
65–69 	1	9.1		128	11.5		—	—		129	11.4	
70–74 	2	18.2		170	15.2		1	25.0		173	15.3	
75–79 	1	9.1		235	21.1		1	25.0		237	21.0	
80–84 	1	9.1		226	20.3		—	—		227	20.1	
85–89 	—	—		158	14.2		—	—		158	14.0	
90+ 	—	—		114	10.2		1	25.0		115	10.2	
Total males	11	100.0		1,116	100.0		4	100.0		1,131	100.0	
Persons												
0–49	3	7.7		9	0.3		—	—		12	0.4	
50–54	3	7.7		23	0.8		1	12.5		27	0.9	
55–59	4	10.3		45	1.5		1	12.5		50	1.7	
60–64	6	15.4		111	3.8		—	—		117	3.9	
65–69 	5	12.8		259	8.8		1	12.5		265	8.8	
70–74 	4	10.3		382	12.9		1	12.5		387	12.9	
75–79 	4	10.3		541	18.3		1	12.5		546	18.2	
80–84 	4	10.3		599	20.3		1	12.5		604	20.1	
85–89 	5	12.8		510	17.3		1	12.5		516	17.2	
90+ 	1	2.6		473	16.0		1	12.5		475	15.8	
Total	39	100.0		2,952	100.0		8	100.0		2,999	100.0	

Table 4.10: EACH package recipients, English-speaking status based on country of birth, by sex and age, 30 June 2007
	Australian-born		Overseas-born		Total care recipients	
Sex/age (years)			English-speaking background		Countries where English is not the main language spoken			
	Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent	
Females												
0–49	8	0.7		—	—		—	—		8	0.4	
50–54	11	0.9		1	0.5		2	0.5		14	0.7	
55–59	19	1.6		1	0.5		7	1.6		27	1.4	
60–64	49	4.0		5	2.3		11	2.5		65	3.5	
65–69	85	7.0		21	9.7		30	6.9		136	7.3	
70–74	143	11.8		19	8.8		52	11.9		214	11.5	
75–79	203	16.7		31	14.4		75	17.2		309	16.5	
80–84	231	19.0		44	20.4		102	23.4		377	20.2	
85–89	223	18.3		55	25.5		80	18.3		358	19.2	
90+	244	20.1		39	18.1		77	17.7		360	19.3	
Total females	1,216	100.0		216	100.0		436	100.0		1,868	100.0	
Males												
0–49	4	0.6		—	—		—	—		4	0.4	
50–54	9	1.3		1	0.7		3	1.0		13	1.1	
55–59	19	2.8		2	1.5		2	0.7		23	2.0	
60–64	32	4.6		2	1.5		18	5.9		52	4.6	
65–69	83	12.0		21	15.6		25	8.2		129	11.4	
70–74	104	15.1		23	17.0		46	15.0		173	15.3	
75–79	148	21.4		21	15.6		68	22.2		237	21.0	
80–84	134	19.4		25	18.5		68	22.2		227	20.1	
85–89	90	13.0		21	15.6		47	15.4		158	14.0	
90+	67	9.7		19	14.1		29	9.5		115	10.2	
Total males	690	100.0		135	100.0		306	100.0		1,131	100.0	
Persons												
0–49	12	0.6		—	—		—	—		12	0.4	
50–54	20	1.0		2	0.6		5	0.7		27	0.9	
55–59	38	2.0		3	0.9		9	1.2		50	1.7	
60–64	81	4.2		7	2.0		29	3.9		117	3.9	
65–69	168	8.8		42	12.0		55	7.4		265	8.8	
70–74	247	13.0		42	12.0		98	13.2		387	12.9	
75–79	351	18.4		52	14.8		143	19.3		546	18.2	
80–84	365	19.2		69	19.7		170	22.9		604	20.1	
85–89	313	16.4		76	21.7		127	17.1		516	17.2	
90+	311	16.3		58	16.5		106	14.3		475	15.8	
Total	1,906	100.0		351	100.0		742	100.0		2,999	100.0	
Note: Recipients of undetermined origin (6 people) have been spread proportionately over the overseas-born categories.

Table 4.11: Age- and sex-specific usage rates for EACH package recipients, by English-speaking status based on country of birth, 30 June 2007 (per 1,000 population)
Sex/age (years)	Australian-born	Overseas-born	Total care 
recipients	
		English-speaking background	Countries where 
English is not the main 
language spoken		
Females					
50–64	0.06	0.03	0.05	0.06	
65–74	0.48	0.40	0.50	0.47	
75–84	1.16	1.19	1.70	1.27	
85+	2.77	3.09	4.91	3.11	
Total females	0.54	0.49	0.64	0.55	
Males					
50–64	0.05	0.02	0.06	0.05	
65–74	0.43	0.42	0.41	0.43	
75–84	1.03	0.80	1.44	1.09	
85+	2.03	2.47	3.69	2.39	
Total males	0.34	0.30	0.46	0.36	
Persons					
50–64	0.06	0.02	0.06	0.05	
65–74	0.46	0.41	0.45	0.45	
75–84	1.11	1.00	1.58	1.19	
85+	2.54	2.88	4.44	2.87	
Total (50+)	0.45	0.39	0.55	0.46	
Notes	
1.	Recipients with unknown status (6 people) have been spread proportionately across overseas-born categories.
2.	Ratios are calculated using AIHW projections of ABS estimated resident population (ABS 2006) by country of birth. The table uses the Australian Standard Classification of Countries, as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007d).	
3.	Owing to the unavailability of regular population estimates by language preference, English-speaking status is based on country of birth. 
People born in Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom, New Zealand, United States of America, Canada and South Africa are assumed to be 
from an English-speaking background. 

Table 4.12: EACH package recipients, carer status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/carer status	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Has a carer										
Co-resident carer	427	368	201	97	78	22	25	21	1,239	
Carer not co-resident	127	84	66	37	70	23	8	5	420	
Total	554	452	267	134	148	45	33	26	1,659	
Does not have a carer	61	49	28	20	31	3	12	5	209	
Total females	615	501	295	154	179	48	45	31	1,868	
Males										
Has a carer										
Co-resident carer	293	289	131	64	52	20	29	16	894	
Carer not co-resident	37	37	31	7	22	6	2	4	146	
Total	330	326	162	71	74	26	31	20	1,040	
Does not have a carer	22	23	15	6	15	1	2	7	91	
Total males	352	349	177	77	89	27	33	27	1,131	
Persons										
Has a carer										
Co-resident carer	720	657	332	161	130	42	54	37	2,133	
Carer not co-resident	164	121	97	44	92	29	10	9	566	
Total	884	778	429	205	222	71	64	46	2,699	
Does not have a carer	83	72	43	26	46	4	14	12	300	
Total	967	850	472	231	268	75	78	58	2,999	
	Per cent	
Females										
Has a carer										
Co-resident carer	69.4	73.5	68.1	63.0	43.6	45.8	55.6	67.7	66.3	
Carer not co-resident	20.7	16.8	22.4	24.0	39.1	47.9	17.8	16.1	22.5	
Total	90.1	90.2	90.5	87.0	82.7	93.8	73.3	83.9	88.8	
Does not have a carer	9.9	9.8	9.5	13.0	17.3	6.3	26.7	16.1	11.2	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Has a carer										
Co-resident carer	83.2	82.8	74.0	83.1	58.4	74.1	87.9	59.3	79.0	
Carer not co-resident	10.5	10.6	17.5	9.1	24.7	22.2	6.1	14.8	12.9	
Total	93.8	93.4	91.5	92.2	83.1	96.3	93.9	74.1	92.0	
Does not have a carer	6.3	6.6	8.5	7.8	16.9	3.7	6.1	25.9	8.0	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Has a carer										
Co-resident carer	74.5	77.3	70.3	69.7	48.5	56.0	69.2	63.8	71.1	
Carer not co-resident	17.0	14.2	20.6	19.0	34.3	38.7	12.8	15.5	18.9	
Total	91.4	91.5	90.9	88.7	82.8	94.7	82.1	79.3	90.0	
Does not have a carer	8.6	8.5	9.1	11.3	17.2	5.3	17.9	20.7	10.0	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. 	

Table 4.13: EACH package recipients with a carer, carer co-residency status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007 (per cent)	
Sex/carer co-residency	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
Females										
Co-resident carer	77.1	81.4	75.3	72.4	52.7	48.9	75.8	80.8	74.7	
Carer not co-resident	22.9	18.6	24.7	27.6	47.3	51.1	24.2	19.2	25.3	
Total with a carer	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Total (number)	554	452	267	134	148	45	33	26	1,659	
Males										
Co-resident carer	88.8	88.7	80.9	90.1	70.3	76.9	93.5	80.0	86.0	
Carer not co-resident	11.2	11.3	19.1	9.9	29.7	23.1	6.5	20.0	14.0	
Total with a carer	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Total (number)	330	326	162	71	74	26	31	20	1,040	
Persons										
Co-resident carer	81.4	84.4	77.4	78.5	58.6	59.2	84.4	80.4	79.0	
Carer not co-resident	18.6	15.6	22.6	21.5	41.4	40.8	15.6	19.6	21.0	
Total with a carer	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Total (number)	884	778	429	205	222	71	64	46	2,699	
(a) Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. 			

Table 4.14: EACH package recipients, carer status by sex and age, 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	Has a carer		Does not 
have a carer		Total care recipients	
	Co-resident carer		Carer not 
co-resident 		Total 
with a carer					
	No.	Per cent		No.	Per
 cent		No.	Per cent		No.	Per cent		No.	Per cent	
Females															
0–49	5	0.4		1	0.2		6	0.4		2	1.0		8	0.4	
50–54	8	0.6		2	0.5		10	0.6		4	1.9		14	0.7	
55–59	22	1.8		1	0.2		23	1.4		4	1.9		27	1.4	
60–64	55	4.4		6	1.4		61	3.7		4	1.9		65	3.5	
65–69	104	8.4		19	4.5		123	7.4		13	6.2		136	7.3	
70–74	163	13.2		25	6.0		188	11.3		26	12.4		214	11.5	
75–79	226	18.2		53	12.6		279	16.8		30	14.4		309	16.5	
80–84	252	20.3		87	20.7		339	20.4		38	18.2		377	20.2	
85–89	209	16.9		106	25.2		315	19.0		43	20.6		358	19.2	
90+	195	15.7		120	28.6		315	19.0		45	21.5		360	19.3	
Total females	1,239	100.0		420	100.0		1,659	100.0		209	100.0		1,868	100.0	
Males															
0–49	4	0.4		—	—		4	0.4		—	—		4	0.4	
50–54	8	0.9		1	0.7		9	0.9		4	4.4		13	1.1	
55–59	18	2.0		2	1.4		20	1.9		3	3.3		23	2.0	
60–64	45	5.0		2	1.4		47	4.5		5	5.5		52	4.6	
65–69	99	11.1		14	9.6		113	10.9		16	17.6		129	11.4	
70–74	147	16.4		11	7.5		158	15.2		15	16.5		173	15.3	
75–79	188	21.0		34	23.3		222	21.3		15	16.5		237	21.0	
80–84	189	21.1		27	18.5		216	20.8		11	12.1		227	20.1	
85–89	113	12.6		31	21.2		144	13.8		14	15.4		158	14.0	
90+	83	9.3		24	16.4		107	10.3		8	8.8		115	10.2	
Total males	894	100.0		146	100.0		1,040	100.0		91	100.0		1,131	100.0	
Persons															
0–49	9	0.4		1	0.2		10	0.4		2	0.7		12	0.4	
50–54	16	0.8		3	0.5		19	0.7		8	2.7		27	0.9	
55–59	40	1.9		3	0.5		43	1.6		7	2.3		50	1.7	
60–64	100	4.7		8	1.4		108	4.0		9	3.0		117	3.9	
65–69	203	9.5		33	5.8		236	8.7		29	9.7		265	8.8	
70–74	310	14.5		36	6.4		346	12.8		41	13.7		387	12.9	
75–79	414	19.4		87	15.4		501	18.6		45	15.0		546	18.2	
80–84	441	20.7		114	20.1		555	20.6		49	16.3		604	20.1	
85–89	322	15.1		137	24.2		459	17.0		57	19.0		516	17.2	
90+	278	13.0		144	25.4		422	15.6		53	17.7		475	15.8	
Total	2,133	100.0		566	100.0		2,699	100.0		300	100.0		2,999	100.0	
Note: Recipients of undetermined origin have been spread proportionately over the overseas-born categories.		

Table 4.15: EACH package admissions, age at admission by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007	
Sex/age (years)	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
0–49	1	5	2	—	—	1	—	—	9	
50–54	4	2	2	—	1	—	—	—	9	
55–59	4	8	4	1	—	1	1	—	19	
60–64	18	11	4	7	1	3	2	5	51	
65–69	37	25	16	11	4	4	—	2	99	
70–74 	65	41	24	11	6	4	5	9	165	
75–79 	107	62	37	18	19	4	6	2	255	
80–84 	113	57	51	28	43	8	6	9	315	
85–89 	118	53	46	30	32	13	9	5	306	
90+ 	117	55	66	31	35	4	7	8	323	
Total females	584	319	252	137	141	42	36	40	1,551	
Males										
0–49	2	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	3	
50–54	3	5	2	1	—	—	—	1	12	
55–59	5	5	7	—	—	1	1	—	19	
60–64	5	16	7	4	1	2	3	1	39	
65–69	34	23	21	7	5	6	1	4	101	
70–74 	46	41	14	6	7	3	1	3	121	
75–79 	80	41	32	14	18	5	10	5	205	
80–84 	57	63	42	16	14	3	9	6	210	
85–89 	59	36	30	6	11	3	3	—	148	
90+ 	50	13	20	10	7	3	4	2	109	
Total males	341	243	176	64	63	26	32	22	967	
Persons										
0–49	3	5	3	—	—	1	—	—	12	
50–54	7	7	4	1	1	—	—	1	21	
55–59	9	13	11	1	—	2	2	—	38	
60–64	23	27	11	11	2	5	5	6	90	
65–69	71	48	37	18	9	10	1	6	200	
70–74 	111	82	38	17	13	7	6	12	286	
75–79 	187	103	69	32	37	9	16	7	460	
80–84 	170	120	93	44	57	11	15	15	525	
85–89 	177	89	76	36	43	16	12	5	454	
90+ 	167	68	86	41	42	7	11	10	432	
Total	925	562	428	201	204	68	68	62	2,518	
					(continued)

Table 4.15 (continued): EACH package admissions, age at admission by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Per cent	
Females										
0–49	0.2	1.6	0.8	—	—	2.4	—	—	0.6	
50–54	0.7	0.6	0.8	—	0.7	—	—	—	0.6	
55–59	0.7	2.5	1.6	0.7	—	2.4	2.8	—	1.2	
60–64	3.1	3.4	1.6	5.1	0.7	7.1	5.6	12.5	3.3	
65–69	6.3	7.8	6.3	8.0	2.8	9.5	—	5.0	6.4	
70–74 	11.1	12.9	9.5	8.0	4.3	9.5	13.9	22.5	10.6	
75–79 	18.3	19.4	14.7	13.1	13.5	9.5	16.7	5.0	16.4	
80–84 	19.3	17.9	20.2	20.4	30.5	19.0	16.7	22.5	20.3	
85–89 	20.2	16.6	18.3	21.9	22.7	31.0	25.0	12.5	19.7	
90+ 	20.0	17.2	26.2	22.6	24.8	9.5	19.4	20.0	20.8	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
0–49	0.6	—	0.6	—	—	—	—	—	0.3	
50–54	0.9	2.1	1.1	1.6	—	—	—	4.5	1.2	
55–59	1.5	2.1	4.0	—	—	3.8	3.1	—	2.0	
60–64	1.5	6.6	4.0	6.3	1.6	7.7	9.4	4.5	4.0	
65–69	10.0	9.5	11.9	10.9	7.9	23.1	3.1	18.2	10.4	
70–74 	13.5	16.9	8.0	9.4	11.1	11.5	3.1	13.6	12.5	
75–79 	23.5	16.9	18.2	21.9	28.6	19.2	31.3	22.7	21.2	
80–84 	16.7	25.9	23.9	25.0	22.2	11.5	28.1	27.3	21.7	
85–89 	17.3	14.8	17.0	9.4	17.5	11.5	9.4	—	15.3	
90+ 	14.7	5.3	11.4	15.6	11.1	11.5	12.5	9.1	11.3	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
0–49	0.3	0.9	0.7	—	—	1.5	—	—	0.5	
50–54	0.8	1.2	0.9	0.5	0.5	—	—	1.6	0.8	
55–59	1.0	2.3	2.6	0.5	—	2.9	2.9	—	1.5	
60–64	2.5	4.8	2.6	5.5	1.0	7.4	7.4	9.7	3.6	
65–69	7.7	8.5	8.6	9.0	4.4	14.7	1.5	9.7	7.9	
70–74 	12.0	14.6	8.9	8.5	6.4	10.3	8.8	19.4	11.4	
75–79 	20.2	18.3	16.1	15.9	18.1	13.2	23.5	11.3	18.3	
80–84 	18.4	21.4	21.7	21.9	27.9	16.2	22.1	24.2	20.8	
85–89 	19.1	15.8	17.8	17.9	21.1	23.5	17.6	8.1	18.0	
90+ 	18.1	12.1	20.1	20.4	20.6	10.3	16.2	16.1	17.2	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.			

Table 4.16: EACH package separations, separation mode by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Sex/separation mode	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Death	113	87	56	22	20	13	10	9	330	
To hospital	34	4	16	5	5	4	4	2	74	
To residential aged care 	147	103	92	36	50	9	8	9	454	
To other type of community care: 									
HACC	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	5	
CACP	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	6	
EACH Dementia	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	17	
Total	9	7	5	2	1	—	—	4	28	
Recipient withdrew	19	4	9	2	1	—	2	1	38	
Other	30	6	2	4	6	1	1	2	51	
Total females	352	211	180	71	83	27	25	27	976	
Males										
Death	82	76	60	19	15	10	9	6	277	
To hospital	22	10	14	6	1	3	—	5	61	
To residential aged care 	89	64	45	19	24	2	8	5	256	
To other type of community care: 									
HACC	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	5	
CACP	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	5	
EACH Dementia	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	15	
Total	8	10	2	—	—	1	3	1	25	
Recipient withdrew	14	3	4	2	1	—	5	2	31	
Other	15	6	3	1	3	—	—	1	29	
Total males	230	169	128	47	44	16	25	20	679	
Persons										
Death	195	163	116	41	35	23	19	15	607	
To hospital	56	14	30	11	6	7	4	7	135	
To residential aged care 	236	167	137	55	74	11	16	14	710	
To other type of community care: 									
HACC	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	10	
CACP	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	11	
EACH Dementia	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	32	
Total	17	17	7	2	1	1	3	5	53	
Recipient withdrew	33	7	13	4	2	—	7	3	69	
Other	45	12	5	5	9	1	1	3	80	
Total 	582	380	308	118	127	43	50	47	1,655	
							 		(continued)

Table 4.16 (continued): EACH package separations, separation mode by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Sex/separation mode	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Per cent	
Females										
Death	32.1	41.2	31.1	31.0	24.1	48.1	40.0	33.3	33.8	
To hospital	9.7	1.9	8.9	7.0	6.0	14.8	16.0	7.4	7.6	
To residential aged care 	41.8	48.8	51.1	50.7	60.2	33.3	32.0	33.3	46.5	
To other type of community care: 									
HACC	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	0.5	
CACP	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	0.6	
EACH Dementia	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	1.7	
Total	2.6	3.3	2.8	2.8	1.2	—	—	14.8	2.9	
Recipient withdrew	5.4	1.9	5.0	2.8	1.2	—	8.0	3.7	3.9	
Other	8.5	2.8	1.1	5.6	7.2	3.7	4.0	7.4	5.3	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Death	35.7	45.0	46.9	40.4	34.1	62.5	36.0	30.0	40.8	
To hospital	9.6	5.9	10.9	12.8	2.3	18.8	—	25.0	9.0	
To residential aged care 	38.7	37.9	35.2	40.4	54.5	12.5	32.0	25.0	37.7	
To other type of community care: 									
HACC	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	0.7	
CACP	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	0.7	
EACH Dementia	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	2.2	
Total	3.5	5.9	1.6	—	—	6.3	12.0	5.0	3.7	
Recipient withdrew	6.1	1.8	3.1	4.3	2.3	—	20.0	10.0	4.6	
Other	6.5	3.6	2.3	2.1	6.8	—	—	5.0	4.3	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Death	33.5	42.9	37.7	34.7	27.6	53.5	38.0	31.9	36.7	
To hospital	9.6	3.7	9.7	9.3	4.7	16.3	8.0	14.9	8.2	
To residential aged care 	40.5	43.9	44.5	46.6	58.3	25.6	32.0	29.8	42.9	
To other type of community care: 									
HACC	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	0.6	
CACP	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	0.7	
EACH Dementia	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	1.9	
Total	2.9	4.5	2.3	1.7	0.8	2.3	6.0	10.6	3.2	
Recipient withdrew	5.7	1.8	4.2	3.4	1.6	—	14.0	6.4	4.2	
Other	7.7	3.2	1.6	4.2	7.1	2.3	2.0	6.4	4.9	
Total 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.
Note: ‘Other’ includes 1 care recipient who moved to a Transition Care place.	

Table 4.17: EACH package separations, length of stay by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Sex/length of stay	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
<4 weeks	35	10	24	2	2	—	2	2	77	
4 to <8 weeks	29	9	15	5	9	3	3	5	78	
8 to <13 weeks	41	21	20	8	7	1	6	4	108	
13 to <26 weeks	75	35	38	18	14	6	7	7	200	
26 to <39 weeks	46	35	18	11	19	8	—	2	139	
39 to <52 weeks	32	32	23	2	15	3	—	3	110	
1 to <2 years	68	50	25	19	13	4	3	3	185	
2 to <3 years	20	11	14	3	3	1	2	—	54	
3 to <4 years	2	8	3	1	1	1	2	1	19	
4 to <5 years	2	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	3	
5+ years	2	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	3	
Total females	352	211	180	71	83	27	25	27	976	
Males										
<4 weeks	26	9	7	5	2	2	5	1	57	
4 to <8 weeks	27	10	14	5	6	2	4	1	69	
8 to <13 weeks	35	11	14	7	4	—	3	2	76	
13 to <26 weeks	47	28	33	13	4	3	2	2	132	
26 to <39 weeks	25	27	21	5	8	3	2	4	95	
39 to <52 weeks	19	25	13	3	3	1	5	1	70	
1 to <2 years	41	42	22	6	12	2	3	8	136	
2 to <3 years	8	14	3	1	4	3	1	—	34	
3 to <4 years	1	3	1	1	1	—	—	1	8	
4 to <5 years	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	
5+ years	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	1	
Total males	230	169	128	47	44	16	25	20	679	
Persons										
<4 weeks	61	19	31	7	4	2	7	3	134	
4 to <8 weeks	56	19	29	10	15	5	7	6	147	
8 to <13 weeks	76	32	34	15	11	1	9	6	184	
13 to <26 weeks	122	63	71	31	18	9	9	9	332	
26 to <39 weeks	71	62	39	16	27	11	2	6	234	
39 to <52 weeks	51	57	36	5	18	4	5	4	180	
1 to <2 years	109	92	47	25	25	6	6	11	321	
2 to <3 years	28	25	17	4	7	4	3	—	88	
3 to <4 years	3	11	4	2	2	1	2	2	27	
4 to <5 years	3	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	4	
5+ years	2	—	—	2	—	—	—	—	4	
Total	582	380	308	118	127	43	50	47	1,655	
									(continued)

Table 4.17 (continued): EACH package separations, length of stay by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Sex/length of stay	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Per cent	
Females										
<4 weeks	9.9	4.7	13.3	2.8	2.4	—	8.0	7.4	7.9	
4 to <8 weeks	8.2	4.3	8.3	7.0	10.8	11.1	12.0	18.5	8.0	
8 to <13 weeks	11.6	10.0	11.1	11.3	8.4	3.7	24.0	14.8	11.1	
13 to <26 weeks	21.3	16.6	21.1	25.4	16.9	22.2	28.0	25.9	20.5	
26 to <39 weeks	13.1	16.6	10.0	15.5	22.9	29.6	—	7.4	14.2	
39 to <52 weeks	9.1	15.2	12.8	2.8	18.1	11.1	—	11.1	11.3	
1 to <2 years	19.3	23.7	13.9	26.8	15.7	14.8	12.0	11.1	19.0	
2 to <3 years	5.7	5.2	7.8	4.2	3.6	3.7	8.0	—	5.5	
3 to <4 years	0.6	3.8	1.7	1.4	1.2	3.7	8.0	3.7	1.9	
4 to <5 years	0.6	—	—	1.4	—	—	—	—	0.3	
5+ years	0.6	—	—	1.4	—	—	—	—	0.3	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
<4 weeks	11.3	5.3	5.5	10.6	4.5	12.5	20.0	5.0	8.4	
4 to <8 weeks	11.7	5.9	10.9	10.6	13.6	12.5	16.0	5.0	10.2	
8 to <13 weeks	15.2	6.5	10.9	14.9	9.1	—	12.0	10.0	11.2	
13 to <26 weeks	20.4	16.6	25.8	27.7	9.1	18.8	8.0	10.0	19.4	
26 to <39 weeks	10.9	16.0	16.4	10.6	18.2	18.8	8.0	20.0	14.0	
39 to <52 weeks	8.3	14.8	10.2	6.4	6.8	6.3	20.0	5.0	10.3	
1 to <2 years	17.8	24.9	17.2	12.8	27.3	12.5	12.0	40.0	20.0	
2 to <3 years	3.5	8.3	2.3	2.1	9.1	18.8	4.0	—	5.0	
3 to <4 years	0.4	1.8	0.8	2.1	2.3	—	—	5.0	1.2	
4 to <5 years	0.4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1	
5+ years	—	—	—	2.1	—	—	—	—	0.1	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
<4 weeks	10.5	5.0	10.1	5.9	3.1	4.7	14.0	6.4	8.1	
4 to <8 weeks	9.6	5.0	9.4	8.5	11.8	11.6	14.0	12.8	8.9	
8 to <13 weeks	13.1	8.4	11.0	12.7	8.7	2.3	18.0	12.8	11.1	
13 to <26 weeks	21.0	16.6	23.1	26.3	14.2	20.9	18.0	19.1	20.1	
26 to <39 weeks	12.2	16.3	12.7	13.6	21.3	25.6	4.0	12.8	14.1	
39 to <52 weeks	8.8	15.0	11.7	4.2	14.2	9.3	10.0	8.5	10.9	
1 to <2 years	18.7	24.2	15.3	21.2	19.7	14.0	12.0	23.4	19.4	
2 to <3 years	4.8	6.6	5.5	3.4	5.5	9.3	6.0	—	5.3	
3 to <4 years	0.5	2.9	1.3	1.7	1.6	2.3	4.0	4.3	1.6	
4 to <5 years	0.5	—	—	0.8	—	—	—	—	0.2	
5+ years	0.3	—	—	1.7	—	—	—	—	0.2	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.

Table 4.18: EACH package separations, length of stay by separation mode, 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Length of stay	Death	To
 hospital	To residential aged care	To other type of community care	Care recipient withdrew	Other	Total	
	Number	
<4 weeks	51	8	49	6	14	6	134	
4 to <8 weeks	53	14	62	3	6	9	147	
8 to <13 weeks	66	16	74	9	12	7	184	
13 to <26 weeks	108	35	157	7	9	16	332	
26 to <39 weeks	91	19	100	8	6	10	234	
39 to <52 weeks	61	17	81	8	6	7	180	
1 to <2 years	119	20	141	10	13	18	321	
2 to <3 years	44	3	34	2	2	3	88	
3 to <4 years	13	2	9	—	—	3	27	
4 to <5 years	1	—	1	1	1	—	4	
5+ years	—	1	2	—	—	1	4	
Total	607	135	710	54	69	80	1,655	
	Per cent (column)	
<4 weeks	8.4	5.9	6.9	11.1	20.3	7.5	8.1	
4 to <8 weeks	8.7	10.4	8.7	5.6	8.7	11.3	8.9	
8 to <13 weeks	10.9	11.9	10.4	16.7	17.4	8.8	11.1	
13 to <26 weeks	17.8	25.9	22.1	13.0	13.0	20.0	20.1	
26 to <39 weeks	15.0	14.1	14.1	14.8	8.7	12.5	14.1	
39 to <52 weeks	10.0	12.6	11.4	14.8	8.7	8.8	10.9	
1 to <2 years	19.6	14.8	19.9	18.5	18.8	22.5	19.4	
2 to <3 years	7.2	2.2	4.8	3.7	2.9	3.8	5.3	
3 to <4 years	2.1	1.5	1.3	—	—	3.8	1.6	
4 to <5 years	0.2	—	0.1	1.9	1.4	—	0.2	
5+ years	—	0.7	0.3	—	—	1.3	0.2	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
	Per cent (row)	
<4 weeks	38.1	6.0	36.6	4.5	10.4	4.5	100.0	
4 to <8 weeks	36.1	9.5	42.2	2.0	4.1	6.1	100.0	
8 to <13 weeks	35.9	8.7	40.2	4.9	6.5	3.8	100.0	
13 to <26 weeks	32.5	10.5	47.3	2.1	2.7	4.8	100.0	
26 to <39 weeks	38.9	8.1	42.7	3.4	2.6	4.3	100.0	
39 to <52 weeks	33.9	9.4	45.0	4.4	3.3	3.9	100.0	
1 to <2 years	37.1	6.2	43.9	3.1	4.0	5.6	100.0	
2 to <3 years	50.0	3.4	38.6	2.3	2.3	3.4	100.0	
3 to <4 years	48.1	7.4	33.3	—	—	11.1	100.0	
4 to <5 years	25.0	—	25.0	25.0	25.0	—	100.0	
5+ years	—	25.0	50.0	—	—	25.0	100.0	
Total	36.7	8.2	42.9	3.3	4.2	4.8	100.0	

5	EACH Dementia recipients
In 2005, the Australian Government made a commitment to allocate 2,000 EACH Dementia packages over the 4-year period from 2006 to 2009. The first of the EACH Dementia packages became available in March 2006. At 30 June 2007, there were 1,271 operational EACH Dementia places, with 872 care recipients receiving assistance from the program, an increase of 575 care recipients compared with 30 June 2006. Over the 2006–07 financial year, 1,344 individuals received assistance from this program (tables 5.1 and A6).
The EACH Dementia program differs from the EACH and CACP programs in that it 
is specifically targeted at frail older people with dementia, who experience behaviours of concern and psychological symptoms associated with dementia, which impact on the ability of the care recipient to live independently in the community(DoHA 2005). 
A care recipient on an EACH Dementia package can access the same types of assistance that are available to an EACH package recipient. However, delivery of that assistance may be provided using a more flexible approach and strategies which are more appropriate for people with dementia. In addition, EACH Dementia packages also provide access to dementia‑specific specialist services and support (DoHA 2005). Recipients need approval from an Aged Care Assessment Team to access an EACH Dementia package.
In view of the small number of packages, only limited analysis is sensible at this point. Tables provided in this chapter have wider age ranges, and some care recipient characteristics are not broken down by sex. It is important to note that the characteristics of EACH Dementia recipients in the future may be quite different in some respects from those of the current service population. 
The following sections describe the characteristics of EACH Dementia package recipients at 30 June 2007 and admissions and separations in the 2006–07 financial year, the program’s first full year of operation.
5.1 Location
There were 872 EACH Dementia package recipients at 30 June 2007. The care recipient distribution at 30 June 2007 across states and territories were: New South Wales, 32%; Victoria, 30%; Queensland, 17%; South Australia, 8%; Western Australia, 6%; Tasmania, 3%; the Australian Capital Territory, 3%; and the Northern Territory, 1% (Table 5.1). 
The majority (72%) of EACH Dementia recipients were located in major cities, 18% in inner regional areas and 10% in outer regional areas. Four care recipients (0.5%) were located in remote areas. No EACH Dementia packages were available in very remote areas (Table 5.2).
5.2 Demographic characteristics
At 30 June 2007, 559 (64%) of EACH Dementia package recipients were women, 313 (36%) were men, and 39% were younger than 80 years. As with the other types of community care packages, male care recipients were younger than females (51% of males were aged under 80 years compared with 33% of female recipients) (Figure 5.1; Table 5.1). Nearly 11% of EACH Dementia package recipients were aged under 70 years including 2 who were aged under 50 years.
Figure 5.1: Age and sex profile of EACH Dementia package recipients, 30 June 2007
Two horizontal bar charts showing Age group (years) on y-axis and per cent on x-axis. First chart shows males, second shows females.
Source: Table 5.1.		
Nearly 60% of EACH Dementia recipients were born in Australia, a further 18% were born in South/East European countries, and 9% in the United Kingdom or Ireland (Table 5.4). Thirty‑one per cent of EACH Dementia recipients were born in countries where English was not the main language spoken (Table 5.5). 
English was the preferred language for 76% of care recipients, and European languages for 18% (Table 5.6). 
The question about normal living arrangements is asked at the time care recipients apply for a package. For those who were EACH Dementia package recipients at 30 June 2007, 76% lived with family and 2% lived with others—a total of 78% who did not live alone (Table 5.7). While 20% (177 people) reported living alone at the time of applying for a package, only 29 of these did not have a current carer. 
Only 7 EACH Dementia recipients identified as being Indigenous. 
5.3 Carer status
Carers are an important factor in the determining the care plan for high-care package recipients and this information is regularly updated. 
Almost all EACH Dementia package recipients (95%) received assistance from a carer, reflecting the critical need for assistance from both formal service providers and from family and/or friends. Over three-quarters of care recipients (77%) had a co-resident carer, while 18% had a carer who did not live with the care recipient. Only 5% (45 people) reported not having a carer (Table 5.8), and 15 of these did not live alone. 
While there was no difference in the proportion of men and women who had a carer (Table 5.8), the proportion of carers who lived with the care recipient was higher for male (88%) than for female care recipients (77%) (Table 5.9). 
Carer recipients aged 90 years and over were slightly more likely to have a carer (98%) compared with most other age groups (94%–96%), although, the carer was less likely to live with the care recipient (31% in this age group had a non-resident carer compared with 
8%–20% of care recipients in other age groups) (Table 5.10).
5.4 Admissions and separations
There were 1,072 admissions to, and 479 separations from, EACH Dementia packages in the 2006–07 financial year (tables 5.11 and 5.12). 
Most people taking up EACH Dementia packages were 80 years and over (60%). With the exception of states and territories which had only a small number of admissions, this was consistent across the states (56%–63%). 
At 30 June 2007, the EACH Dementia program had been in operation for 16 months. For separations during 2006–07, 40% had received care for less than 3 months, and a further 30% for 3–6 months. Three per cent of people who left the program had a length of stay of over 1 year (Table 5.14). Around one-fifth of separations were because the care recipient died, but in most cases the care recipient moved to residential aged care (63%). Four care recipients remained in the community with assistance from other programs (1 with assistance from HACC, 1 moved to a CACP and 2 to EACH packages) (Table 5.13). 
There does not seem to be a strong correlation between length of stay and reasons for separation, with the exception of those with a very short length of stay. People who stayed for less than 4 weeks were less likely to go into residential aged care and more likely to withdraw from the program. Of the 4 care recipients who moved to other aged care programs delivered in the community, 2 did so in the first 4 weeks, 1 stayed between 4 and 8 weeks while 1 who had been receiving assistance from an EACH Dementia package for more than 1 year moved to an EACH package (Table 5.14) . 
These figures should be interpreted with considerable caution as the program has been running for a relatively short period, and is small but growing rapidly.

Table 5.1: EACH Dementia package recipients, age by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
0–59	2	4	4	—	1	—	—	2	13	
60–69	17	9	11	4	—	—	2	2	45	
70–79	44	35	20	7	9	3	5	2	125	
80–89	96	78	42	19	30	12	7	2	286	
90+	29	26	14	7	11	2	1	—	90	
Total females	188	152	91	37	51	17	15	8	559	
Males										
0–59	—	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	3	
60–69	14	9	5	—	2	—	2	—	32	
70–79	31	47	22	5	11	4	3	2	125	
80–89	35	41	22	10	6	6	2	3	125	
90+	10	8	6	1	3	—	—	—	28	
Total males	90	107	56	16	22	10	7	5	313	
Persons										
0–59	2	6	5	—	1	—	—	2	16	
60–69	31	18	16	4	2	—	4	2	77	
70–79	75	82	42	12	20	7	8	4	250	
80–89	131	119	64	29	36	18	9	5	411	
90+	39	34	20	8	14	2	1	—	118	
Total	278	259	147	53	73	27	22	13	872	
	Per cent	
Females										
0–59	1.1	2.6	4.4	—	2.0	—	—	25.0	2.3	
60–69	9.0	5.9	12.1	10.8	—	—	13.3	25.0	8.1	
70–79	23.4	23.0	22.0	18.9	17.6	17.6	33.3	25.0	22.4	
80–89	51.1	51.3	46.2	51.4	58.8	70.6	46.7	25.0	51.2	
90+	15.4	17.1	15.4	18.9	21.6	11.8	6.7	—	16.1	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
0–59	—	1.9	1.8	—	—	—	—	—	1.0	
60–69	15.6	8.4	8.9	—	9.1	—	28.6	—	10.2	
70–79	34.4	43.9	39.3	31.3	50.0	40.0	42.9	40.0	39.9	
80–89	38.9	38.3	39.3	62.5	27.3	60.0	28.6	60.0	39.9	
90+	11.1	7.5	10.7	6.3	13.6	—	—	—	8.9	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
0–59	0.7	2.3	3.4	—	1.4	—	—	15.4	1.8	
60–69	11.2	6.9	10.9	7.5	2.7	—	18.2	15.4	8.8	
70–79	27.0	31.7	28.6	22.6	27.4	25.9	36.4	30.8	28.7	
80–89	47.1	45.9	43.5	54.7	49.3	66.7	40.9	38.5	47.1	
90+	14.0	13.1	13.6	15.1	19.2	7.4	4.5	—	13.5	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.

Table 5.2: EACH Dementia package recipients, age by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	Major 
cities	Inner regional	Outer regional	Remote	Very 
remote	All 
regions	
	Number	
Females							
0–59	8	3	2	—	—	13	
60–69	30	9	6	—	—	45	
70–79	85	28	12	—	—	125	
80–89	206	54	25	1	—	286	
90+	72	11	7	—	—	90	
Total females	401	105	52	1	—	559	
Males							
0–59	3	—	—	—	—	3	
60–69	24	6	2	—	—	32	
70–79	87	18	20	—	—	125	
80–89	89	23	10	3	—	125	
90+	20	6	2	—	—	28	
Total males	223	53	34	3	—	313	
Persons							
0–59	11	3	2	—	—	16	
60–69	54	15	8	—	—	77	
70–79	172	46	32	—	—	250	
80–89	295	77	35	4	—	411	
90+	92	17	9	—	—	118	
Total	624	158	86	4	—	872	
	Per cent	
Females		
0–59	2.0	2.9	3.8	—	—	2.3	
60–69	7.5	8.6	11.5	—	—	8.1	
70–79	21.2	26.7	23.1	—	—	22.4	
80–89	51.4	51.4	48.1	100.0	—	51.2	
90+	18.0	10.5	13.5	—	—	16.1	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	0.0	100.0	
Males							
0–59	1.3	—	—	—	—	1.0	
60–69	10.8	11.3	5.9	—	—	10.2	
70–79	39.0	34.0	58.8	—	—	39.9	
80–89	39.9	43.4	29.4	100.0	—	39.9	
90+	9.0	11.3	5.9	—	—	8.9	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	0.0	100.0	
Persons							
0–59	1.8	1.9	2.3	—	—	1.8	
60–69	8.7	9.5	9.3	—	—	8.8	
70–79	27.6	29.1	37.2	—	—	28.7	
80–89	47.3	48.7	40.7	100.0	—	47.1	
90+	14.7	10.8	10.5	—	—	13.5	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 

Table 5.3: EACH Dementia package recipients, remoteness(a) by state/territory, 30 June 2007
State/territory	Major 
cities	Inner
 regional	Outer 
regional	Remote	Very 
remote	All 
regions	
	Number	
NSW 	193	61	24	—	—	278	
Vic 	231	18	10	—	. .	259	
Qld 	85	44	18	—	—	147	
WA	42	7	4	—	—	53	
SA	51	7	15	—	—	73	
Tas 	. .	21	6	—	—	27	
ACT 	22	—	. .	. .	. .	22	
NT	. .	. .	9	4	—	13	
Australia	624	158	86	4	—	872	
	Per cent (column)	
NSW 	30.9	38.6	27.9	—	—	31.9	
Vic	37.0	11.4	11.6	—	. .	29.7	
Qld	13.6	27.8	20.9	—	—	16.9	
WA	6.7	4.4	4.7	—	—	6.1	
SA	8.2	4.4	17.4	—	—	8.4	
Tas 	. .	13.3	7.0	—	—	3.1	
ACT 	3.5	—	. .	. .	. .	2.5	
NT	. .	. .	10.5	—	—	1.5	
Australia	100.0	100.0	100.0	—	—	100.0	
	Per cent (row)	
NSW 	69.4	21.9	8.6	—	—	100.0	
Vic	89.2	6.9	3.9	—	. .	100.0	
Qld	57.8	29.9	12.2	—	—	100.0	
WA	79.2	13.2	7.5	—	—	100.0	
SA	69.9	9.6	20.5	—	—	100.0	
Tas 	. .	77.8	22.2	—	—	100.0	
ACT 	100.0	—	. .	. .	. .	100.0	
NT	. .	. .	69.2	30.8	—	100.0	
Australia	71.6	18.1	9.9	0.5	0.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service. The table uses the remoteness structure from the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Structure as developed by the ABS (ABS 2007c). 
. . 	Not applicable.

Table 5.4: EACH Dementia package recipients, birthplace(a) by state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Birthplace	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Australia	186	119	90	30	47	19	12	9	512	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	1	2	7	—	—	—	—	—	10	
UK and Ireland	15	23	16	8	10	4	5	—	81	
North/West Europe	13	9	4	—	2	2	1	1	32	
South/East Europe	41	78	16	10	8	1	3	—	157	
North Africa/Middle East	12	12	4	—	2	—	—	2	32	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	1	2	2	2	1	1	—	—	9	
Southeast Asia	2	6	1	1	—	—	—	1	11	
Northeast Asia	2	3	1	—	—	—	1	—	7	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	4	4	3	—	2	—	—	—	13	
North America	1	1	—	—	1	—	—	—	3	
Other America/Caribbean	—	—	2	1	—	—	—	—	3	
Other	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Not stated/not classified	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	—	2	
Total 	278	259	147	53	73	27	22	13	872	
	Per cent	
Australia	66.9	45.9	61.2	56.6	64.4	70.4	54.5	69.2	58.7	
Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	0.4	0.8	4.8	—	—	—	—	—	1.1	
UK and Ireland	5.4	8.9	10.9	15.1	13.7	14.8	22.7	—	9.3	
North/West Europe	4.7	3.5	2.7	—	2.7	7.4	4.5	7.7	3.7	
South/East Europe	14.7	30.1	10.9	18.9	11.0	3.7	13.6	—	18.0	
North Africa/Middle East	4.3	4.6	2.7	—	2.7	—	—	15.4	3.7	
Sub-Saharan Africa/South Africa	0.4	0.8	1.4	3.8	1.4	3.7	—	—	1.0	
Southeast Asia	0.7	2.3	0.7	1.9	—	—	—	7.7	1.3	
Northeast Asia	0.7	1.2	0.7	—	—	—	4.5	—	0.8	
Southern Asia/Central Asia	1.4	1.5	2.0	—	2.7	—	—	—	1.5	
North America	0.4	0.4	—	—	1.4	—	—	—	0.3	
Other America/Caribbean	—	—	1.4	1.9	—	—	—	—	0.3	
Other	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Not stated/not classified	—	—	0.7	1.9	—	—	—	—	0.2	
Total 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	ABS 2007d.
(b)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.
Note: Recipients of undetermined origin have been spread proportionately over the overseas-born categories. 
Table 5.5: EACH Dementia package recipients, English-speaking status based on country of birth, by age, 30 June 2007
Age (years)	Australian-born		Overseas-born		Total care recipients	
			English-speaking background		Countries where English is not the main language spoken			
	Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent		Number	Per cent	
0–59	11	2.1		1	1.1		4	1.5		16	1.8	
60–69	49	9.5		5	5.4		23	8.6		77	8.8	
70–79	153	29.8		27	29.3		70	26.3		250	28.7	
80–89	226	44.0		47	51.1		138	51.9		411	47.1	
90+	75	14.6		12	13.0		31	11.7		118	13.5	
Total	514	100.0		92	100.0		266	100.0		872	100.0	
Note: Recipients of undetermined origin have been spread proportionately over the overseas-born categories.

Table 5.6: EACH Dementia package recipients, preferred language(a) by state/territory(b), 30 June 2007 
Preferred language	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Australian Indigenous	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	2	
English	217	161	121	46	66	26	18	7	662	
Other Northern European	6	3	2	—	1	—	—	—	12	
Southern European	22	58	6	6	4	1	1	1	99	
Eastern European	15	17	9	1	1	—	2	—	45	
Southwest Asian and North African	10	9	2	—	1	—	—	1	23	
Southern Asian	2	2	4	—	—	—	—	—	8	
Southeast Asian	2	6	1	—	—	—	—	—	9	
Eastern Asian	2	2	1	—	—	—	1	—	6	
African (excluding North African)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Oceanic	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Other	1	1	1	—	—	—	—	1	4	
Not stated	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	2	
Total 	278	259	147	53	73	27	22	13	872	
	Per cent	
Australian Indigenous	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	15.4	0.2	
English	78.1	62.2	82.3	86.8	90.4	96.3	81.8	53.8	75.9	
Other Northern European	2.2	1.2	1.4	—	1.4	—	—	—	1.4	
Southern European	7.9	22.4	4.1	11.3	5.5	3.7	4.5	7.7	11.4	
Eastern European	5.4	6.6	6.1	1.9	1.4	—	9.1	—	5.2	
Southwest Asian and North African	3.6	3.5	1.4	—	1.4	—	—	7.7	2.6	
Southern Asian	0.7	0.8	2.7	—	—	—	—	—	0.9	
Southeast Asian	0.7	2.3	0.7	—	—	—	—	—	1.0	
Eastern Asian	0.7	0.8	0.7	—	—	—	4.5	—	0.7	
African (excluding North African)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Oceanic	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	
Other	0.4	0.4	0.7	—	—	—	—	7.7	0.5	
Not stated	0.4	—	—	—	—	—	—	7.7	0.2	
Total 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	ABS 1997.
(b)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.

Table 5.7: EACH Dementia package recipients, living arrangements by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/living arrangements	 NSW 	 Vic 	 Qld 	 WA 	 SA 	 Tas 	 ACT 	 NT 	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Lives alone	44	23	25	14	24	7	5	—	142	
Lives with family	136	124	63	23	26	9	10	8	399	
Lives with others	5	4	3	—	1	1	—	—	14	
Not applicable	3	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	4	
Total females	188	152	91	37	51	17	15	8	559	
Males										
Lives alone	10	3	9	4	6	3	—	—	35	
Lives with family	77	101	46	12	13	7	6	4	266	
Lives with others	—	3	1	—	—	—	—	1	5	
Not applicable	3	—	—	—	3	—	1	—	7	
Total males	90	107	56	16	22	10	7	5	313	
Persons										
Lives alone	54	26	34	18	30	10	5	—	177	
Lives with family	213	225	109	35	39	16	16	12	665	
Lives with others	5	7	4	—	1	1	—	1	19	
Not applicable	6	1	—	—	3	—	1	—	11	
Total 	278	259	147	53	73	27	22	13	872	
	Per cent	
Females										
Lives alone	23.4	15.1	27.5	37.8	47.1	41.2	33.3	—	25.4	
Lives with family	72.3	81.6	69.2	62.2	51.0	52.9	66.7	100.0	71.4	
Lives with others	2.7	2.6	3.3	—	2.0	5.9	—	—	2.5	
Not applicable	1.6	0.7	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Lives alone	11.1	2.8	16.1	25.0	27.3	30.0	—	—	11.2	
Lives with family	85.6	94.4	82.1	75.0	59.1	70.0	85.7	80.0	85.0	
Lives with others	—	2.8	1.8	—	—	—	—	20.0	1.6	
Not applicable	3.3	—	—	—	13.6	—	14.3	—	2.2	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Lives alone	19.4	10.0	23.1	34.0	41.1	37.0	22.7	—	20.3	
Lives with family	76.6	86.9	74.1	66.0	53.4	59.3	72.7	92.3	76.3	
Lives with others	1.8	2.7	2.7	—	1.4	3.7	—	7.7	2.2	
Not applicable	2.2	0.4	—	—	4.1	—	4.5	—	1.3	
Total 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.
Note: Not applicable is used for people who are permanent residents of residential aged care, Multi-purpose Services, Aboriginal and Torres 
Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program, hospitals or other institutional settings. 	

Table 5.8: EACH Dementia package recipients, carer status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/carer status	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Has a carer										
Co-resident carer	139	124	64	24	27	11	10	8	407	
Carer not co-resident	36	21	22	13	22	6	3	—	123	
Total	175	145	86	37	49	17	13	8	530	
Does not have a carer	13	7	5	—	2	—	2	—	29	
Total females	188	152	91	37	51	17	15	8	559	
Males										
Has a carer										
Co-resident carer	76	97	45	12	14	6	7	5	262	
Carer not co-resident	9	6	7	2	7	4	—	—	35	
Total	85	103	52	14	21	10	7	5	297	
Does not have a carer	5	4	4	2	1	—	—	—	16	
Total males	90	107	56	16	22	10	7	5	313	
Persons										
Has a carer										
Co-resident carer	215	221	109	36	41	17	17	13	669	
Carer not co-resident	45	27	29	15	29	10	3	—	158	
Total	260	248	138	51	70	27	20	13	827	
Does not have a carer	18	11	9	2	3	—	2	—	45	
Total	278	259	147	53	73	27	22	13	872	
	Per cent	
Females										
Has a carer										
Co-resident carer	73.9	81.6	70.3	64.9	52.9	64.7	66.7	100.0	72.8	
Carer not co-resident	19.1	13.8	24.2	35.1	43.1	35.3	20.0	—	22.0	
Total	93.1	95.4	94.5	100.0	96.1	100.0	86.7	100.0	94.8	
Does not have a carer	6.9	4.6	5.5	—	3.9	—	13.3	—	5.2	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Has a carer										
Co-resident carer	84.4	90.7	80.4	75.0	63.6	60.0	100.0	100.0	83.7	
Carer not co-resident	10.0	5.6	12.5	12.5	31.8	40.0	—	—	11.2	
Total	94.4	96.3	92.9	87.5	95.5	100.0	100.0	100.0	94.9	
Does not have a carer	5.6	3.7	7.1	12.5	4.5	—	—	—	5.1	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Has a carer										
Co-resident carer	77.3	85.3	74.1	67.9	56.2	63.0	77.3	100.0	76.7	
Carer not co-resident	16.2	10.4	19.7	28.3	39.7	37.0	13.6	—	18.1	
Total	93.5	95.8	93.9	96.2	95.9	100.0	90.9	100.0	94.8	
Does not have a carer	6.5	4.2	6.1	3.8	4.1	—	9.1	—	5.2	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.							

Table 5.9: EACH Dementia package recipients with a carer, carer co-residency status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Sex/co-residency status	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
Co-resident carer	139	124	64	24	27	11	10	8	407	
Carer not co-resident	36	21	22	13	22	6	3	—	123	
Total carers	175	145	86	37	49	17	13	8	530	
Males										
Co-resident carer	76	97	45	12	14	6	7	5	262	
Carer not co-resident	9	6	7	2	7	4	—	—	35	
Total carers	85	103	52	14	21	10	7	5	297	
Persons										
Co-resident carer	215	221	109	36	41	17	17	13	669	
Carer not co-resident	45	27	29	15	29	10	3	—	158	
Total	260	248	138	51	70	27	20	13	827	
	Per cent	
Females										
Co-resident carer	79.4	85.5	74.4	64.9	55.1	64.7	76.9	100.0	76.8	
Carer not co-resident	20.6	14.5	25.6	35.1	44.9	35.3	23.1	—	23.2	
Total carers	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males										
Co-resident carer	89.4	94.2	86.5	85.7	66.7	60.0	100.0	100.0	88.2	
Carer not co-resident	10.6	5.8	13.5	14.3	33.3	40.0	—	—	11.8	
Total carers	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
Co-resident carer	82.7	89.1	79.0	70.6	58.6	63.0	85.0	100.0	80.9	
Carer not co-resident	17.3	10.9	21.0	29.4	41.4	37.0	15.0	—	19.1	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.

Table 5.10: EACH Dementia package recipients, carer status, by age, 30 June 2007
Age (years)	Has a carer		Does not
have a carer		Total 	
	Co-resident	Non-resident	Total					
	Number	
0–59	12	3	15		1		16	
60–69	66	6	72		5		77	
70–79	209	31	240		10		250	
80–89	304	81	385		26		411	
90+	78	37	115		3		118	
Total	669	158	827		45		872	
	Per cent (column)	
0–59	1.8	1.9	1.8		2.2		1.8	
60–69	9.9	3.8	8.7		11.1		8.8	
70–79	31.2	19.6	29.0		22.2		28.7	
80–89	45.4	51.3	46.6		57.8		47.1	
90+	11.7	23.4	13.9		6.7		13.5	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0		100.0		100.0	
	Per cent (row)	
0–59	75.0	18.8	93.8		6.3		100.0	
60–69	85.7	7.8	93.5		6.5		100.0	
70–79	83.6	12.4	96.0		4.0		100.0	
80–89	74.0	19.7	93.7		6.3		100.0	
90+	66.1	31.4	97.5		2.5		100.0	
Total	76.7	18.1	94.8		5.2		100.0	

Table 5.11: EACH Dementia package admissions, age at admission by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Sex/age (years)	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
0–59	2	4	5	—	1	—	—	1	13	
60–69	16	13	11	5	1	1	1	1	49	
70–79	55	38	28	15	13	3	7	5	164	
80–89	125	75	53	31	36	13	4	3	340	
90+	32	23	15	10	9	4	1	—	94	
Total females	230	153	112	61	60	21	13	10	660	
Males 										
0–59	1	3	1	—	—	—	—	—	5	
60–69	16	12	8	—	2	1	1	1	41	
70–79	41	50	30	11	17	3	4	2	158	
80–89	60	48	37	10	10	5	1	3	174	
90+	12	7	8	2	4	—	1	—	34	
Total males	130	120	84	23	33	9	7	6	412	
Persons										
0–59	3	7	6	—	1	—	—	1	18	
60–69	32	25	19	5	3	2	2	2	90	
70–79	96	88	58	26	30	6	11	7	322	
80–89	185	123	90	41	46	18	5	6	514	
90+	44	30	23	12	13	4	2	—	128	
Total	360	273	196	84	93	30	20	16	1,072	
	Per cent	
Females										
0–59	0.9	2.6	4.5	—	1.7	—	—	10.0	2.0	
60–69	7.0	8.5	9.8	8.2	1.7	4.8	7.7	10.0	7.4	
70–79	23.9	24.8	25.0	24.6	21.7	14.3	53.8	50.0	24.8	
80–89	54.3	49.0	47.3	50.8	60.0	61.9	30.8	30.0	51.5	
90+	13.9	15.0	13.4	16.4	15.0	19.0	7.7	—	14.2	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males 										
0–59	0.8	2.5	1.2	—	—	—	—	—	1.2	
60–69	12.3	10.0	9.5	—	6.1	11.1	14.3	16.7	10.0	
70–79	31.5	41.7	35.7	47.8	51.5	33.3	57.1	33.3	38.3	
80–89	46.2	40.0	44.0	43.5	30.3	55.6	14.3	50.0	42.2	
90+	9.2	5.8	9.5	8.7	12.1	—	14.3	—	8.3	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
0–59	0.8	2.6	3.1	—	1.1	—	—	6.3	1.7	
60–69	8.9	9.2	9.7	6.0	3.2	6.7	10.0	12.5	8.4	
70–79	26.7	32.2	29.6	31.0	32.3	20.0	55.0	43.8	30.0	
80–89	51.4	45.1	45.9	48.8	49.5	60.0	25.0	37.5	47.9	
90+	12.2	11.0	11.7	14.3	14.0	13.3	10.0	—	11.9	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.

Table 5.12: EACH Dementia package separations, age by state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Age (years)	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Females										
0–59	1	2	2	—	—	—	—	—	5	
60–69	4	8	1	1	—	1	—	1	16	
70–79	21	14	17	8	5	1	1	4	71	
80–89	47	28	20	13	12	2	1	4	127	
90+	11	11	11	4	3	2	2	—	44	
Total females	84	63	51	26	20	6	4	9	263	
Males 										
0–59	1	1	3	—	—	—	—	—	5	
60–69	4	7	6	—	—	1	—	1	19	
70–79	23	18	13	4	6	—	2	1	67	
80–89	35	34	20	3	10	2	2	1	107	
90+	8	4	2	1	2	—	1	—	18	
Total males	71	64	44	8	18	3	5	3	216	
Persons										
0–59	2	3	5	—	—	—	—	—	10	
60–69	8	15	7	1	—	2	—	2	35	
70–79	44	32	30	12	11	1	3	5	138	
80–89	82	62	40	16	22	4	3	5	234	
90+	19	15	13	5	5	2	3	—	62	
Total	155	127	95	34	38	9	9	12	479	
	Per cent	
Females										
0–59	1.2	3.2	3.9	—	—	—	—	—	1.9	
60–69	4.8	12.7	2.0	3.8	—	16.7	—	11.1	6.1	
70–79	25.0	22.2	33.3	30.8	25.0	16.7	25.0	44.4	27.0	
80–89	56.0	44.4	39.2	50.0	60.0	33.3	25.0	44.4	48.3	
90+	13.1	17.5	21.6	15.4	15.0	33.3	50.0	—	16.7	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Males 										
0–59	1.4	1.6	6.8	—	—	—	—	—	2.3	
60–69	5.6	10.9	13.6	—	—	33.3	—	33.3	8.8	
70–79	32.4	28.1	29.5	50.0	33.3	—	40.0	33.3	31.0	
80–89	49.3	53.1	45.5	37.5	55.6	66.7	40.0	33.3	49.5	
90+	11.3	6.3	4.5	12.5	11.1	—	20.0	—	8.3	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Persons										
0–59	1.3	2.4	5.3	—	—	—	—	—	2.1	
60–69	5.2	11.8	7.4	2.9	—	22.2	—	16.7	7.3	
70–79	28.4	25.2	31.6	35.3	28.9	11.1	33.3	41.7	28.8	
80–89	52.9	48.8	42.1	47.1	57.9	44.4	33.3	41.7	48.9	
90+	12.3	11.8	13.7	14.7	13.2	22.2	33.3	—	12.9	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.

Table 5.13: EACH Dementia package separations, separation mode by state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Separation mode	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia	
	Number	
Death	28	39	19	4	8	2	2	2	104	
To hospital	11	7	7	2	5	1	—	3	36	
To residential aged care 	96	73	61	28	23	6	7	7	301	
To other type of community care: 										
HACC	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	1	
CACP	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	1	
EACH	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	2	
Total	2	1	1	—	—	—	—	—	4	
Recipient withdrew	7	4	5	—	1	—	—	—	17	
Other	11	3	2	—	1	—	—	—	17	
Total 	155	127	95	34	38	9	9	12	479	
	Per cent	
Death	18.1	30.7	20.0	11.8	21.1	22.2	22.2	16.7	21.7	
To hospital	7.1	5.5	7.4	5.9	13.2	11.1	—	25.0	7.5	
To residential aged care 	61.9	57.5	64.2	82.4	60.5	66.7	77.8	58.3	62.8	
To other type of community care: 										
HACC	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	0.2	
CACP	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	0.2	
EACH	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	n.p.	0.4	
Total	1.3	0.8	1.1	—	—	—	—	—	0.8	
Recipient withdrew	4.5	3.1	5.3	—	2.6	—	—	—	3.5	
Other	7.1	2.4	2.1	—	2.6	—	—	—	3.5	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
(a)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.
n.p.	not published.

Table 5.14: EACH Dementia package separations, length of stay by separation mode, 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Length of stay	Death	To hospital	To 
residential aged care	To other
 type of
community care	Care recipient withdrew	Other	Total	
	Number	
<4 weeks	11	2	18	2	5	5	43	
4 to <8 weeks	17	3	46	1	1	2	70	
8 to <13 weeks	16	5	56	—	2	1	80	
13 to <26 weeks	33	16	83	—	4	6	142	
26 to <39 weeks	12	4	61	—	4	1	82	
39 to <52 weeks	12	4	31	—	1	2	50	
1 to 2 years(a)	3	2	6	1	—	—	12	
Total	104	36	301	4	17	17	479	
	Per cent (column)	
<4 weeks	10.6	5.6	6.0	50.0	29.4	29.4	9.0	
4 to <8 weeks	16.3	8.3	15.3	25.0	5.9	11.8	14.6	
8 to <13 weeks	15.4	13.9	18.6	—	11.8	5.9	16.7	
13 to <26 weeks	31.7	44.4	27.6	—	23.5	35.3	29.6	
26 to <39 weeks	11.5	11.1	20.3	—	23.5	5.9	17.1	
39 to <52 weeks	11.5	11.1	10.3	—	5.9	11.8	10.4	
1 to 2 years(a)	2.9	5.6	2.0	25.0	—	—	2.5	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
	Per cent (row)	
<4 weeks	25.6	4.7	41.9	4.7	11.6	11.6	100.0	
4 to <8 weeks	24.3	4.3	65.7	1.4	1.4	2.9	100.0	
8 to <13 weeks	20.0	6.3	70.0	—	2.5	1.3	100.0	
13 to <26 weeks	23.2	11.3	58.5	—	2.8	4.2	100.0	
26 to <39 weeks	14.6	4.9	74.4	—	4.9	1.2	100.0	
39 to <52 weeks	24.0	8.0	62.0	—	2.0	4.0	100.0	
1 to 2 years(a)	25.0	16.7	50.0	8.3	—	—	100.0	
Total	21.7	7.5	62.8	0.8	3.5	3.5	100.0	
(a)	Maximum possible stay is 16 months.							

6	Comparative statistics for CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia programs
The CACP program is the largest and longest running of the three Australian Government‑funded programs, providing aged care packages in the community. At 30 June 2007 there were 34,867 operational packages available through mainstream service providers, 359 operational packages available through Multi-purpose Services, and 257 offered by services receiving flexible funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program. This program provides community-based care to people eligible for low-level residential aged care. The EACH and EACH Dementia programs are smaller (2,999 and 1,271 packages, respectively) and provide community-based care to people eligible for high-level residential aged care. 
Average daily occupancy rates are higher for the two established programs (CACP 93%, EACH 91%) than for the EACH Dementia program (69%) which had only been running for 16 months by 30 June 2007 and is expanding rapidly. The summary table (Table 6.1) below shows key statistics for each of the three programs. 
Women make up the majority of care recipients for all three programs, particularly for the CACP program with 7–9 percentage points more women than for the two high-care programs. EACH recipients had the youngest age profile with 7% of recipients aged under 65 years and 53% aged 80 years and over, while the CACP recipients had the oldest age profile, with 63% aged 80 years and over). The age profile for EACH Dementia care recipients was similar to that for CACP recipients with a slightly lower percentage of recipients aged 80 years and over (61%) (Table 6.1; Figure 6.1).

Figure 6.1: Age profile of CACP, EACH package and EACH Dementia package recipients, 30 June 2007
Vertical bar chart showing per cent on y-axis and age group (years) on x-axis. Key shows ‘CACP’, ‘EACH’ and “EACHD’.
Source: Tables 3.1, 4.1 and 5.1.

Table 6.1: Comparative statistics for CACP, EACH package and EACH Dementia package programs, 
30 June 2007
Variable	CACP	EACH	EACH Dementia	
Operational places, 30 June 2007 	(a)37,997	3,302	1,271	
Care recipients, 30 June 2007	34,867	2,999	872	
% operational places which were filled, 30 June 2007 	(b)93.2	90.8	(c)68.6	
Average daily occupancy rate, 1 July 2006–30 June 2007	(b)93.1	88.6	(c)68.3	
% females	70.9	62.3	64.1	
% 80 years and over	64.7	53.2	60.7	
% younger than 65 years	5.4	6.9	4.5	
% born in Australia	66.3	63.4	58.7	
% whose preferred language is English	82.8	81.8	75.9	
% from a country where English is not the main language 	21.2	24.7	30.5	
% Indigenous Australians	3.6	1.3	0.8	
% living in major cities	65.6	66.6	71.6	
% living in remote or very remote areas	2.7	0.4	0.5	
% living alone	53.9	26.7	20.3	
% with a carer	(d)n.a.	90.0	94.8	
% with a co-resident carer	(d)n.a.	71.1	76.7	
% of carers who lived with care recipient	(d)n.a.	79.0	80.9	
% left to go to hospital or died	23.2	44.8	29.2	
% left to go to residential aged care	46.5	42.9	62.8	
% length of stay of less than 3 months	18.0	28.1	40.3	
% length of stay of less than a year	52.0	73.2	*	
(a)	Includes 359 packages offered by Multi-purpose Services and 257 offered by services receiving flexible funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program.
(b)	Excludes packages and/or care recipients referred to in note (a), as information is not available on people receiving this assistance.
(c)	This program has been operating for 16 months only. During the early stages where the program is expanding rapidly and the first care recipients are being recruited, occupancy is expected to be lower than for programs that are already established. 
(d)	Relevant percentage for the 2002 CACP census were 56.5% with a carer, 28.6% with a co-resident carer and 51.1% of carers living with the care recipient (AIHW 2004a).
n.a.	Not available.
* 	Not an appropriate comparison because of the short length of operation of program.
The proportion of people born in a country where English was not the main language spoken was higher among EACH Dementia recipients (31%) than among EACH recipients (25%) and CACP recipients (21%), and higher usage per 1,000 population were observed compared with other Australian- and overseas-born package recipients (see tables 3.13 and 4.11). In 2006–07 less than 16% of permanent aged care residents were born in countries where English is not the main language spoken (AIHW 2008). This higher use of community care packages may reflect a stronger reliance on family support and a greater reluctance to use residential aged care. 
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a higher usage per 1,000 population for CACPs across all age groups. However, access to EACH and EACH Dementia packages is limited by the availability of packages in more remote areas. Nearly 4% of CACP recipients were identified as Indigenous Australians, compared with just over 1% of EACH recipients and just under 1% of EACH Dementia recipients. This is no doubt influenced by difficulties in providing high‑level care and dementia-specific care in the community in these more remote areas, although the availability of high-care packages in remote areas has increased over the 12 months to 30 June 2007. 
EACH Dementia package recipients were more likely to have a carer (95%) than EACH package recipients (90%). The proportion of recipients with a carer is higher for both these groups than for CACP recipients in the 2004 census (57%), reflecting the high‑care needs of these care recipients. Most carers of EACH and EACH Dementia package recipients lived with the care recipient. For EACH and EACH Dementia care recipients, 71% and 77%, respectively, had a co-resident carer. In 2002 only 29% of CACP recipients had a co-resident carer. 
A higher proportion of EACH recipients no longer received assistance because they died or left when admitted to hospital (45%) than was the case for EACH Dementia (29%) or CACP recipients (23%). EACH Dementia recipients were more likely to enter residential care (63%) than EACH (43%) or CACP (47%) recipients. 
The majority of EACH recipients leaving the program had received assistance for less than 12 months (73%) compared with 52% for CACP recipients. Between 1 July 2006 and 30  June 2007, 40% of separating EACH Dementia package recipients had received assistance for less than 3 months. However, the EACH Dementia packages have only been operational 16 months, and both the numbers of care recipients receiving assistance from the program and those leaving the program are relatively small. 

Appendix 1: Additional tables
Table A1: Number of operational residential aged care places, CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, and transition care places, and the provision ratio per 1,000 persons aged 70 years and over(a), 30 June 1995 to 30 June 2007
Places and packages		Provision ratio	
Year	 Residential aged care 	CACP 	EACH and EACH Dementia 	Transition care 	 Total		Residential places 	CACP ratio	EACH and EACH Dementia 	Transition care 	Total(a)	
1995	134,810	2,542	. .	. .	137,352		92.2	1.7	. .	. .	93.9	
1996	136,851	4,431	. .	. .	141,282		90.6	2.9	. .	. .	93.5	
1997	139,058	6,124	. .	. .	145,182		89.2	3.9	. .	. .	93.1	
1998	139,917	10,046	. .	. .	149,963		87.1	6.3	. .	. .	93.3	
1999	141,697	13,896	. .	. .	155,593		85.6	8.4	. .	. .	94.0	
2000(b)	142,342	18,308	. .	. .	160,650		83.6	10.8	. .	. .	94.4	
2001(b)	144,013	24,629	. .	. .	168,642		82.2	14.0	. .	. .	96.2	
2002(b)	146,268	26,425	. .	. .	172,693		81.9	14.8	. .	. .	96.7	
2003	151,181	27,881	255	. .	179,062		83.4	15.4	0.1	. .	98.7	
2004	156,580	29,063	860	. .	186,503		85.1	15.8	0.5	. .	101.3	
2005	161,765	30,973	1,673	. .	194,411		86.4	16.5	0.9	. .	103.8	
2006	166,291	35,383	(c)3,181	595	205,450		87.2	18.5	1.7	0.3	107.7	
2007	170,071	37,997	(c)4,573	1,609	214,250	 	87.0	19.4	2.3	0.8	109.7	
(a)	The ratios are based on ABS population estimates released in December 2007 (ABS 2007a), and are recalculated back to 2001. Total provision may vary from the sum of the component parts because of rounding.
(b)	From 2000 until late 2002, the EACH program was in a pilot phase.
(c)	Includes 601 EACH Dementia places in 2006, and 1,271 in 2007.
. .	Not applicable.	
Notes		
1.	The ratios differ from those published by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, which, for reporting purposes, use small area projections.
2.	From 1999, the data in this table include places and packages provided by Multi-purpose Services and flexible funding under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program. Non-residential flexible care packages are counted under CACP.

Table A2: CACP care recipients, age, 30 June 2000 to 30 June 2007
Age (years)	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	
	Number	
0–49	174 	199 	250 	255 	241 	201 	186 	167	
50–54	152 	189 	258 	280 	281 	242 	228 	244	
55–59	281 	334 	473 	493 	485 	476 	512 	520	
60–64	557 	644 	810 	925 	928 	919 	905 	953	
65–69	941 	 1,075 	 1,281 	 1,417 	 1,551 	 1,621 	 1,804 	1,848	
70–74	 1,777 	 2,149 	 2,510 	 2,724 	 2,686 	 2,616 	 2,788 	2,963	
75–79	 2,983 	 3,735 	 4,318 	 4,584 	 4,761 	 4,847 	 5,298 	5,615	
80–84	 4,022 	 4,961 	 5,887 	 6,350 	 6,795 	 7,155 	 7,994 	8,623	
85–89	 3,698 	 4,777 	 5,604 	 5,970 	 5,996 	 6,491 	 7,257 	8,412	
90+	 2,032 	 2,665 	 3,194 	 3,575 	 3,933 	 4,331 	 4,831 	5,522	
Total	 16,617 	 20,728 	 24,585 	 26,573 	 27,657 	 28,899 	 31,803 	34,867	
	Per cent	
0–49	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.7	0.6	0.5	
50–54	0.9	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.7	
55–59	1.7	1.6	1.9	1.9	1.8	1.6	1.6	1.5	
60–64	3.4	3.1	3.3	3.5	3.4	3.2	2.8	2.7	
65–69	5.7	5.2	5.2	5.3	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.3	
70–74	10.7	10.4	10.2	10.3	9.7	9.1	8.8	8.5	
75–79	18.0	18.0	17.6	17.3	17.2	16.8	16.7	16.1	
80–84	24.2	23.9	23.9	23.9	24.6	24.8	25.1	24.7	
85–89	22.3	23.0	22.8	22.5	21.7	22.5	22.8	24.1	
90+	12.2	12.9	13.0	13.5	14.2	15.0	15.2	12.7	
Total	100.0	100.0	100	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	

Table A3: CACP care recipients, Indigenous status by sex, 30 June 2000 to 30 June 2007
Sex/Indigenous status	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	
	Per cent	
Clients in packages provided by mainstream service providers	
Females									
Indigenous	2.3	2.3	2.8	3.3	3.6	3.6	3.5	3.4	
Non-Indigenous	97.4	97.5	97.1	95.3	95.2	95.7	96.0	96.3	
Unknown/not reported	0.3	0.2	0.1	1.4	1.2	0.7	0.5	0.3	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Total females (number)	11,731	14,602	17,349	18,791	19,664	20,619	22,662	24,715	
Males									
Indigenous	3.1	2.7	3.3	4.3	4.9	4.9	4.5	4.1	
Non-Indigenous	96.7	97.2	96.7	93.7	93.7	94.4	95.2	95.8	
Unknown/not reported	0.2	0.1	—	2.0	1.5	0.7	0.4	0.2	
Total males 	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Total males (number)	4,886	6,126	7,236	7,782	7,993	8,280	9,141	10,152	
Persons									
Indigenous	2.6	2.4	2.9	3.6	4.0	3.9	3.8	3.6	
Non-Indigenous	97.2	97.4	97.0	94.8	94.8	95.4	95.8	96.2	
Unknown/not reported	0.3	0.1	0.1	1.6	1.3	0.7	0.4	0.2	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Total mainstream clients (number)	16,617	20,728	24,585	26,573	27,657	28,899	31,803	34,867	
Indigenous clients including those using packages funded under the National 
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program(a)	
Indigenous clients	3.0	2.8	3.3	4.0	4.4	4.7	4.5	4.3	
Total clients including those using packages funded by National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program funded packages (number)	16,699	20,809	24,679	26,687	27,771	29,142	32,051	35,124	
(a)	This program provides cashed out funding of equivalent value to packages for use in flexible aged care. This table imputes the number of Indigenous clients on a 1 client per 1 package basis to better estimate the total number of Indigenous clients who are receiving community‑based packages. It assumes full use of packages funded under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program.								

Table A4: CACP care recipients, English-speaking status based on country of birth, by age group, 30 June 2000 to 30 June 2007
	2000	2001	2004	2005	2006	2007	
	Per cent	
Females							
Australian-born	59.3	60.4	65.1	66.3	67.1	68.4	
Overseas-born English-speaking background	15.7	15.7	12.3	11.5	11.0	10.6	
Total English-speaking background	75.0	76.1	77.4	77.8	78.1	79.1	
Born overseas in a country where English is not the main language spoken	24.5	23.4	22.6	22.2	21.9	20.9	
Unknown	0.6	0.5	(a)	(a)	(a)	(a)	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Total females (number)	11,731	14,602	19,664	20,619	22,552	24,715	
Males							
Australian-born	57.6	58.9	63.2	64.5	65.2	66.0	
Overseas-born English-speaking background	16.0	17.1	13.5	12.9	12.3	12.2	
Total English-speaking background	73.6	76.0	76.7	77.4	77.6	78.2	
Born overseas in a country where English is not the main language spoken	25.9	23.6	23.3	22.6	22.4	21.8	
Unknown	0.5	0.5	(a)	(a)	(a)	(a)	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Total males (number)	4,886	6,126	7993	8,280	9065	10,152	
Persons							
Australian-born	58.8	59.9	64.6	65.8	66.6	67.7	
Overseas-born English-speaking background	15.8	16.1	12.6	11.9	11.4	11.1	
Total English-speaking background	74.6	76.0	77.2	77.7	77.9	78.8	
Born overseas in a country where English is not the main language spoken	24.9	23.5	22.8	22.3	22.1	21.2	
Unknown	0.5	0.5	(a)	(a)	(a)	(a)	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Total (number)	16,617	20,728	27,657	28,899	31,617	34,867	
(a)	From 2004 unknowns have been spread proportionally over the overseas-born categories.
Note: Data for 2002 and 2003 have not been included because of the high proportion of unknown data (greater than 10%).				

Table A5: CACP admissions, age at admission, by sex, 1999–00 to 2006–07	
Sex/age (years)	1999–00	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	
	Per cent	
Females									
0–49	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3	
50–54	0.7	0.6	0.9	0.8	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.4	
55–59	1.5	1.1	1.5	1.3	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	
60–64	2.5	2.2	2.6	2.6	2.3	2.5	2.1	1.9	
65–69	5.0	4.6	5.0	4.8	4.9	4.5	4.3	4.0	
70–74 	10.4	10.4	9.6	10.6	9.4	8.6	8.3	7.9	
75–79 	19.8	19.3	19.2	18.9	19.0	19.2	18.2	17.1	
80–84 	26.9	26.1	26.4	26.1	27.4	27.7	28.1	27.9	
85–89 	21.7	24.2	23.1	22.6	23.2	22.8	23.9	25.1	
90+ 	10.9	10.9	11.0	11.7	11.7	13.2	13.4	14.6	
Total females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Total females (number)	7,466	9,418	10,985	10,032	9,849	9,725	11,573	12,771	
Males									
0–49	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.0	0.6	0.5	0.3	
50–54	1.2	1.3	1.4	1.6	1.0	0.7	0.8	0.7	
55–59	2.2	2.3	2.5	2.3	1.9	1.9	1.6	1.4	
60–64	3.5	3.8	4.4	4.8	3.4	3.3	3.0	3.2	
65–69	6.6	5.2	6.1	6.6	6.3	6.3	6.2	5.7	
70–74 	12.9	12.6	12.6	11.3	9.7	10.8	10.0	9.5	
75–79 	20.1	18.2	18.2	18.9	18.8	18.6	19.8	18.4	
80–84 	21.5	23.4	22.4	22.5	24.4	25.1	25.4	24.7	
85–89 	20.5	21.2	20.6	20.7	21.8	20.8	21.0	23.2	
90+ 	10.3	10.7	10.4	10.2	11.7	12.0	11.6	12.9	
Total males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Total males (number)	3,358	4,202	5,125	4,687	4,576	4,455	5,288	6,115	
Persons									
0–49	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.3	
50–54	0.8	0.9	1.1	1.1	0.8	0.5	0.6	0.5	
55–59	1.7	1.4	1.8	1.6	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.1	
60–64	2.8	2.7	3.1	3.3	2.7	2.8	2.4	2.3	
65–69	5.5	4.8	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.1	4.9	4.5	
70–74 	11.2	11.1	10.5	10.8	9.5	9.3	8.9	8.4	
75–79 	19.9	19.0	18.9	18.9	18.9	19.0	18.7	17.6	
80–84 	25.2	25.3	25.2	24.9	26.4	26.9	27.3	26.9	
85–89 	21.3	23.3	22.3	22.0	22.8	22.2	23.0	24.5	
90+ 	10.7	10.9	10.8	11.2	11.7	12.8	12.8	14.0	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Total (number)	10,824	13,620	16,110	14,719	14,425	14,180	16,861	18,886	
	
Table A6: Number of individuals receiving assistance(a) from the CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia programs during the year, by 
state/territory(b), and the proportion receiving one or more episodes of care(c) in the year, 1999–00 to 2006–07
	People receiving assistance from the program		Episodes of care(c)	
			More than one	One only	
	NSW	Vic	Qld	WA	SA	Tas	ACT	NT	Australia		Australia	
	Number		Number	Per cent	Per cent	
CACP														
1999–00	8,103	5,806	4,185	2,065	1,956	715	452	213	23,495		33	0.14	99.86	
2000–01	10,223	7,493	4,959	2,577	2,553	844	514	270	29,433		49	0.17	99.83	
2001–02	12,674	9,142	5,916	3,229	3,221	905	565	421	36,073		40	0.11	99.89	
2002–03	13,487	9,728	6,176	3,375	3,535	980	538	559	38,378		51	0.13	99.87	
2003–04	13,848	10,288	6,389	3,517	3,717	1,067	573	637	40,036		26	0.06	99.94	

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2004–05	14,318	10,438	6,523	3,584	3,769	1,120	624	655	41,031		17	0.04	99.96	
2005–06	15,439	11,664	7,251	3,892	4,007	1,189	668	696	44,806		30	0.07	99.93	
2006–07	17,094	12,477	8,268	4,556	4,517	1,253	739	715	49,619		28	0.06	99.94	
EACH														
2004–05	519	519	238	150	166	68	53	56	1,769		0	—	100.00	
2005–06	982	927	498	211	288	82	90	66	3,144		2	0.06	99.94	
2006–07	1,516	1,221	772	346	393	116	126	104	4,594		4	0.09	99.91	
EACH Dementia												
2005–06	83	120	50	3	19	6	11	9	301		0	—	100.00	
2006–07	431	384	241	87	109	36	31	25	1,344		0	—	100.00	
(a)	The number of individuals receiving assistance is related to both the number of operational places (Table 2.1) and the individuals’ length of stay. Where a person stays for only a short period, more than one person will receive assistance from the same package. A person may also move from one type of package to another and be included once in this table for each type of package used.
(b)	Refers to the location of the outlet providing the service.
(c)	Episodes of care differ from the number of admissions. A care recipient who is receiving care at the beginning of the year may be separated/discharged from the program, but be admitted again later
that year. If the original admission was in the previous year or earlier, and the second in the specified reporting year, this would be counted as two episodes of care in the year but only one admission. 
Where a person transfers from one provider to another, this will be counted as two episodes of care. People may receive care in more than 1 year.  

Appendix 2: Data sources and limitations
The data presented in this report are drawn from the Aged and Community Care Management Information System (ACCMIS). This data repository contains information gathered through a number of instruments. Of those instruments, the following two are directly relevant to this report:
•	The Aged Care Client Record (Form 3020). This is a form used for the assessment and approval of a care recipient for either residential aged care, a CACP, or flexible care (for example, an EACH or EACH Dementia package). This form is completed by a delegate of an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) in consultation with the applicant, and signed either by the applicant or by someone on behalf of the applicant.
•	The Provider Claim Form. This form is completed by the service provider for claiming the Community Care Subsidy that is payable for the service for a payment period; normally 1 calendar month. 
Other instruments through which information on the service providers is gathered include the Approved Provider Status Application and the Community Care Service Agreement between the Australian Government and the service provider. 
General population data are taken from the latest AIHW population databases supplied by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. 
Care recipients’ personal details 
All care recipients receiving a CACP, an EACH package or an EACH Dementia package must have a valid Aged Care Client record (that is, the recipient must have an ‘approved’ status). This record is normally valid for a period of 12 months from the date of approval. Approval of applications is a responsibility of Aged Care Assessment Teams and their delegates.
The information entered into ACCMIS from the Aged Care Client Record is the major source of the following data items:
•	sex
•	date of birth
•	Indigenous status
•	birthplace
•	preferred language
•	usual residence status (before admission) OR usual accommodation (before admission)
•	living arrangements (before admission)
•	the initial information on carer status.
Some recipient details, such as financial hardship status and carer support status, are obtained from the Provider Claim Form, which are submitted monthly and should be regularly updated.
The response categories for the characteristic ‘usual living arrangements before becoming a recipient of a package’ have changed with the introduction of a revised ACAT form on 1 January 2003 and the Aged Care Assessment Program data dictionary. At the same time, some response categories for information about the care recipients’ type of residence changed with the discontinuation of the ‘usual residence status’ data item and the introduction of the ‘usual accommodation’ data item. 
Care recipients’ admission and separation details
The Provider Claim Form is sent to approved service providers at the beginning of a payment period. This form has the details of existing recipients under the care of service providers (the form would be blank for a new service provider). It is the responsibility of service providers to check this form for accuracy and record new data and changes relating to new admissions, separations and leave for their care recipients. 
The Provider Claim Form is the original source for the following data items:
•	date of admission
•	date of separation
•	separation mode
•	length of stay (derived from date of admission and date of separation)
•	updates to financial hardship status
•	updates to carer status.
Service providers’ details
Details about community aged care service providers are collected through the Approved Provider Status Application and the Community Care Service Agreement between the Australian Government and the service provider. These documents are the main source for the following data items:
•	location of outlets (by both state/territory and geographical area)
•	size of outlets
•	financial hardship target percentage for CACP providers.
Limitations of the data
The following points should be noted when interpreting the data presented in this report.
The data used for this report were those available in ACCMIS in November 2007. However, as ACCMIS is ‘refreshed’ periodically, minor differences in some data will occur depending on the version used for reporting.
•	The basis for the general population figure used in the calculation of the service provision ratio was the ABS estimated resident population at 30 June 2007 released in December 2007, along with AIHW calculations on remoteness. The service provision ratios presented in this report may be different from those calculated by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing due to differences in the population figures used.
•	Some sociodemographic characteristics of care recipients are recorded at the time of application, and hence may not reflect their true characteristics while receiving care from these programs. These characteristics include their pension status, usual residence status and living arrangements. Care recipients’ actual financial hardship status may also be different from the status at the initial assessment by the service providers.
•	Because of the non-compulsory nature of self-identified Indigenous status, the number of people who were of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin presented in this report may be an underestimation of the true number using these programs.
•	Although the location of service-providing outlets can be used to assume the location of CACP and EACH recipients, it is possible that outlets provide services to care recipients who live outside the outlets’ jurisdictions or geographical areas. 
•	The lack of information on areas such as type of assistance received by care recipients, their levels of dependency and (for CACP recipients) carer support means that analysis of recipients’ care needs was outside the scope of this report. 
•	Each allocated package is provided to one specific service recipient, referred to as a funded care recipient. However, when all the allocated packages provided by a service are filled but the funding for these packages allows for additional services to be provided to other people, outlets may provide services to additional people, referred to as supplementary recipients. The Community Aged Care Packages census 2002, noted earlier, reported just over 3% of all CACP recipients as supplementary care recipients (AIHW 2004a). These recipients are not represented in the CACP reporting. 

Glossary 
Admission	The occasion on which the recipient begins to receive community care from the outlet. Admission date may also be referred to as ‘date of commencement’.	
Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT)	Multidisciplinary team of health professionals responsible for determining eligibility for care.	
Birthplace (country of birth)—Countries other than Australia are grouped as follows (ABS 2007d):	
	Other Oceania/New Zealand/Antarctica	Includes American Samoa, Antarctica, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.	
	United Kingdom and Ireland 	England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Ireland.	
	North and West Europe 	Includes Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.	
	South and East Europe	Includes Albania, Andorra, Bulgaria, Byelorussian SSR, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Ukrainian SSR, former USSR and former Yugoslavia.	
	North Africa and the Middle East	Includes Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Upper Volta.	
	Southeast Asia	Includes Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.	
	Northeast Asia	Includes China, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau and Taiwan.	
	Southern and Central Asia	Includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.	
	North America	Bermuda, Canada, St Pierre and Miquelon and the United States of America.	
	Other America/Caribbean	Includes Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.	
	Sub-Saharan Africa	Includes Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Réunion, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo and Zimbabwe.	
Care recipient	A person assessed by an Aged Care Assessment Team as having significant care needs that can be appropriately met through the provision of residential care, community care and/or flexible care.	
Financial hardship status	Refers to whether the person is considered to experience financial hardship based on certain criteria, such as home ownership and pension status.	
Housing-linked packages	Refers to packages that provide care to financially disadvantaged people in designated rental housing developments, including public or community housing, and in secure private rental accommodation. 	
Leave	A situation where the recipient temporarily ceases to receive services from the outlet to take a holiday, to enter hospital or to temporarily receive alternative care.	
Length of stay	The time between the date of admission and the date of separation.	
Living arrangements	Refers to the normal cohabitation of the recipient at the time of assessment.	
Low-level residential care	Refers to general accommodation services provided in residential facilities, such as meals, laundry and room cleaning, together with additional daily personal assistance such as bathing, showering and personal hygiene. Care also includes organising, supervising and administering of medication; toileting and continence management; meal assistance; transfers; mobility; dressing/undressing; fitting of sensory/communication aids; assessment and referral for appropriate support; communication assistance; and provision of special diets and emotional support.	
Multi-purpose Services	Operating in rural and remote communities, these provide a mix of Australian Government- and state-funded services, including aged care services, best suited to the needs of each community.	
Preferred language—Languages other than English are grouped as follows (ABS 1997):	
	Australian Indigenous	Includes all Australian Indigenous languages.	
	Other Northern European	Includes Danish, Dutch, German, Irish, Norwegian, Swedish, Welsh and Yiddish.	
	Southern European	Includes French, Greek, Italian, Maltese, Portuguese and Spanish.	
	Eastern European	Includes Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Ukrainian.	
	Southwest Asian and North African	Includes Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew and Persian.	
	Southern Asian	Includes Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Sinhalese and Urdu.	
	Southeast Asian	Includes Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Thai, Filipino, Bahasa (Indonesian and Malay), Timorese and Vietnamese.	
	Eastern Asian	Includes Chinese (various dialects), Japanese and Korean.	
	African (excluding North African)	Includes Afrikaans, Asante, Mauritian Creole, Oromo, Shona, Somali, Swahili, Yoruba and Zulu.	
	Oceanic	Includes Fijian, Samoan, Tongan and other South Pacific languages.	
Remoteness—The geographical areas used in this report are based on the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Structure developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS 2007c). This classification categorises all Census Collection Districts (CDs) in Australia according to their remoteness, based on physical road distance to the nearest urban centre. Remoteness is measured by the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA). The structure of the classification is as follows:	
	Major cities	CDs with an average ARIA index value of 0 to 0.2	
	Inner regional	CDs with an average ARIA index value greater than 0.2 and less than or equal to 2.4	
	Outer regional	CDs with an average ARIA index value greater than 2.4 and less than or equal to 5.92	
	Remote	CDs with an average ARIA index value greater than 5.92 and less than or equal to 10.53	
	Very remote	CDs with an average ARIA index value greater than 10.53.	
Separation	The point at which the recipient ceases to receive community care from an outlet.	
Separation mode	Indicates the destination of a care recipient at separation, including death.	
Service outlet	An organisation or incorporated body which has been approved to provide Community Aged Care Package services, Extended Aged Care at Home or Extended Aged Care at Home Dementia services. The outlet also has the responsibility to plan, coordinate and manage the provision of community care services to its care recipients	
Supplementary care recipients	Care recipients receiving regular Community Aged Care Package assistance but for whom their service providers are not entitled to claim the Community Care Subsidy.	
Usual residence status 	Refers to the housing tenure before the recipient’s application for a Community Aged Care Package.	

References 
ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 1997. Australian Standard Classification of Languages. Canberra: ABS.
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ABS 2006. Migration Australia, 2004-05. Cat. no. 3412.0. Canberra: ABS.
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ABS 2007c. Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC), July 2007. Cat. no. 1216.0. Canberra: ABS.
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List of tables
Table 2.1: CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, by state/territory(a), 30 June 1992 to 30 June 2007
Table 2.1 (continued): CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, by state/territory(a), 30 June 1992 to 30 June 2007
Table 2.2: CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages per 1,000 persons aged 70 years and over, state/territory by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 2.3: CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, remoteness(a) by state/territory, 30 June 2007
Table 2.3 (continued): CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, state/territory by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 2.3 (continued): CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, state/territory by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 2.4: CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, state/territory by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 2.4 (continued): CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, state/territory by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 2.4 (continued): CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, state/territory by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 2.5: CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, size by state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 2.6: CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, size by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 2.7: CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, organisation type by state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 2.7 (continued): CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia services, organisation type by state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 2.8: Average annual occupancy rate(a) for CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, by state/territory and remoteness(b), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007 (per cent)
Table 3.1: CACP recipients, age by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 3.1 (continued): CACP recipients, age by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 3.2: CACP recipients, age by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 3.2 (continued): CACP recipients, age by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 3.3: CACP recipients, remoteness(a) by state/territory, 30 June 2007
Table 3.4: CACP recipients, birthplace(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Table 3.4 (continued): CACP recipients, birthplace(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Table 3.5: CACP recipients, preferred language(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Table 3.5 (continued): CACP recipients, preferred language(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Table 3.6: CACP recipients, usual residence status(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Table 3.7: CACP recipients, living arrangements by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 3.8: CACP recipients, Indigenous status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 3.9: CACP recipients, Indigenous status by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 3.10: CACP recipients, Indigenous status by sex and age, 30 June 2007
Table 3.11: Age- and sex-specific usage rates for CACP recipients(a), by Indigenous status, 30 June 2007 (per 1,000 population)(b)
Table 3.12: CACP recipients, English-speaking status based on country of birth, by sex and age,  30 June 2007
Table 3.13: Age- and sex-specific usage rates for CACP recipients, by English-speaking status based on country of birth, 30 June 2007 (per 1,000 population)
Table 3.14: CACP outlets, financial hardship target by state/territory, 30 June 2007
Table 3.15: CACP outlets, financial hardship target by remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 3.16: Care recipients, financial hardship status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 3.17: CACP targets for financially disadvantaged care recipients, by state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 3.18: CACP recipients, financial hardship status by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 3.19: CACP admissions, age at admission by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to  30 June 2007
Table 3.19 (continued): CACP admissions, age at admission by sex and state/territory(a),  1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 3.20: CACP separations, separation mode by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to  30 June 2007
Table 3.21: CACP separations, length of stay by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 3.21 (continued): CACP separations, length of stay by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 3.22: CACP separations, length of stay by separation mode, 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 4.1: EACH package recipients, age by sex and state/territory, 30 June 2007
Table 4.1 (continued): EACH package recipients, age by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 4.2: EACH package recipients, age by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 4.2 (continued): EACH package recipients, age by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 4.3: EACH package recipients, remoteness(a) by state/territory, 30 June 2007
Table 4.4: EACH package recipients, birthplace(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Table 4.4 (continued): EACH package recipients, birthplace(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Table 4.5: EACH package recipients, preferred language(a) by sex and state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Table 4.5 (continued): EACH package recipients, preferred language(a) by sex and state/territory(b),  30 June 2007
Table 4.6: EACH recipients, living arrangements by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 4.7: EACH package recipients, Indigenous status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 4.8: EACH package recipients, Indigenous status by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 4.9: EACH package recipients, Indigenous status by sex and age, 30 June 2007
Table 4.10: EACH package recipients, English-speaking status based on country of birth, by sex and age, 30 June 2007
Table 4.11: Age- and sex-specific usage rates for EACH package recipients, by English-speaking status based on country of birth, 30 June 2007 (per 1,000 population)
Table 4.12: EACH package recipients, carer status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 4.13: EACH package recipients with a carer, carer co-residency status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007 (per cent)
Table 4.14: EACH package recipients, carer status by sex and age, 30 June 2007
Table 4.15: EACH package admissions, age at admission by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 4.15 (continued): EACH package admissions, age at admission by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 4.16: EACH package separations, separation mode by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 4.16 (continued): EACH package separations, separation mode by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 4.17: EACH package separations, length of stay by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 4.17 (continued): EACH package separations, length of stay by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 4.18: EACH package separations, length of stay by separation mode, 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 5.1: EACH Dementia package recipients, age by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 5.2: EACH Dementia package recipients, age by sex and remoteness(a), 30 June 2007
Table 5.3: EACH Dementia package recipients, remoteness(a) by state/territory, 30 June 2007
Table 5.4: EACH Dementia package recipients, birthplace(a) by state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Table 5.5: EACH Dementia package recipients, English-speaking status based on country of birth, by age, 30 June 2007
Table 5.6: EACH Dementia package recipients, preferred language(a) by state/territory(b), 30 June 2007
Table 5.7: EACH Dementia package recipients, living arrangements by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 5.8: EACH Dementia package recipients, carer status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 5.9: EACH Dementia package recipients with a carer, carer co-residency status by sex and state/territory(a), 30 June 2007
Table 5.10: EACH Dementia package recipients, carer status, by age, 30 June 2007
Table 5.11: EACH Dementia package admissions, age at admission by sex and state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 5.12: EACH Dementia package separations, age by state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 5.13: EACH Dementia package separations, separation mode by state/territory(a), 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 5.14: EACH Dementia package separations, length of stay by separation mode, 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007
Table 6.1: Comparative statistics for CACP, EACH package and EACH Dementia package programs,  30 June 2007
Table A1: Number of operational residential aged care places, CACPs, EACH packages and EACH Dementia packages, and transition care places, and the provision ratio per 1,000 persons aged 70 years and over(a), 30 June 1995 to 30 June 2007
Table A2: CACP care recipients, age, 30 June 2000 to 30 June 2007
Table A3: CACP care recipients, Indigenous status by sex, 30 June 2000 to 30 June 2007
Table A4: CACP care recipients, English-speaking status based on country of birth, by age group, 30 June 2000 to 30 June 2007
Table A5: CACP admissions, age at admission, by sex, 1999–00 to 2006–07
Table A6: Number of individuals receiving assistance(a) from the CACP, EACH and EACH Dementia programs during the year, by  state/territory(b), and the proportion receiving one or more episodes of care(c) in the year, 1999–00 to 2006–07
List of figures
Figure 2.1:	Service provision ratios, aged care packages in the community, 1995–2007	4
Figure 3.1: 	Age and sex profile of CACP recipients, 30 June 2007	22
Figure 3.2: 	Age profile of Indigenous and other Australian CACP recipients, 
30 June 2007	25
Figure 4.1: 	Age and sex profile of EACH package recipients, 30 June 2007	56
Figure 5.1: 	Age and sex profile of EACH Dementia package recipients, 30 June 2007	85
Figure 6.1: 	Age profile of CACP, EACH package and EACH Dementia package 
recipients, 30 June 2007