Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- General context
- Australia in context
- Demography
- Older Australians: age, sex and living arrangements
- The changing demographic profile 1976-2016
- Indigenous peoples
- People from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds
- International comparisons
- Health and well-being of older people
- Life expectancies of older Australians
- Health differentials
- Dementia and older Australians
- Self-rated health among older Australians
- Dependency levels among older Australians
- The nature of dependency among older Australians
- Well-being and productive ageing
- Older Australians as volunteers
- Older people's organisations in Australia
- Older Australians as carers
- Healthy ageing
- Families and caring
- Carers
- Formal vs informal care
- Changing patterns of care (1988-1993)
- Retirement, income and housing
- Australian age pension
- Superannuation in Australia
- Housing of older Australians
- Retirement in Australia
- Health services used by older Australians
- Hospital use by older Australians
- Hospital statistics - diagnoses and procedures
- Aged care services
- Assessment strategies
- The Home and Community Care (HACC) program
- Care packages and community options
- Hostels
- Nursing homes
- Dependency levels among service users
- Aged care system
- Fitting the pieces together - the Australian system
- Financing the Australian aged care system
- Recent policy initiatives
- Expenditure trends
- Expenditure on aged care
- Health expenditure on older people
- Expenditure trends and international comparisons