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Residential aged care in Australia 2006-07: a statistical overview
Residential aged care in Australia 2006-07: a statistical overview
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Topic: Aged care
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2008) Residential aged care in Australia 2006-07: a statistical overview, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 06 November 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2008). Residential aged care in Australia 2006-07: a statistical overview. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Residential aged care in Australia 2006-07: a statistical overview. AIHW, 2008.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Residential aged care in Australia 2006-07: a statistical overview. Canberra: AIHW; 2008.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2008, Residential aged care in Australia 2006-07: a statistical overview, AIHW, Canberra.
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Residential aged care in Australia 2006-07: a statistical overview provides comprehensive statistical information on residential aged care homes and their residents. The report contains information on the capacity of residential aged care homes, their residents and resident characteristics, levels of dependency among residents, and admissions and separations.The report will be particularly useful to aged care service planners, providers of aged care services, and researchers in the field.
- ISSN: 1329-5705
- ISBN: 978 1 74024 791 7
- Cat. no: AGE 56
- Pages: 124
Findings from this report:
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170,000 places were available in residential aged care at 30 June 2007
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Almost 157,000 people were in residential aged care at 30 June 2007
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More than half (54%) of people in residential aged care at 30 June 2007 were aged 85 and over
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The average length of stay in permanent residential aged care in 2006–07 was 2.8 years—up from 2.5 years in 1998–99