Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
- Between 2005 and 2013 the program assisted more than 87,000 people
- Three in four care recipients had improved functional status
- More than half of the care recipients returned to live in the community
- Two-thirds of care recipients living in the community did not enter residential aged care within 12 months
- Body section
- Introduction
- About the Transition Care Program
- Timeframes and key concepts
- About this report
- Data and methods
- 1 Transition care services and provision
- Overview of Transition Care Program activity
- Service outlets
- Service provision
- Occupancy
- Care days provided
- Episodes of care
- Periods of care
- 2 Characteristics of recipients
- Personal demographics
- Cultural and linguistic diversity
- Indigenous status
- 3 Functional change
- Overview
- Trends
- Size of the change in MBI score
- Location of service provider
- Service provision setting
- Age and sex
- Amount of transition care service provision
- Length of initial hospital stay
- 4 Discharge destination
- Overview
- State and territory
- Level of functioning at admission
- Functional improvement
- Length of initial hospital stay
- Amount of transition care service provision
- Service provision setting
- Care recipient characteristics
- 5 Admission to residential aged care
- Movement to residential aged care
- Care recipients living in the community: admission to residential aged care
- Discussion
- Summary of analysis and main findings
- Limitations and areas for development
- Introduction
- End matter
- Appendix A: Additional tables
- Appendix B: Data Quality Statement
- Data Quality Statement: AIHW National Aged Care Data Clearinghouse
- Glossary
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Related publications