National Healthcare Agreement: PI 30–Elapsed time for aged care services, 2018
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Progress measure |
Short name: | PI 30–Elapsed time for aged care services, 2018 |
METEOR identifier: | 658471 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 19/06/2019 |
Description: | The elapsed time between an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACT) approval and entry into a residential aged care service or commencement of a Home Care Package. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2018) Health, Superseded 16/06/2019 |
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Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 30-Elapsed time for aged care services, 2018 QS Health, Standard 30/01/2018 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | ACAT approval refers to the approval date of the most recent ACAT assessment prior to admission into residential care or commencement of a Home Care Package. Service type: Residential care; Home Care Package—levels 1–2; Home Care Package—levels 3–4. Data for residential care only includes permanent residents. Elapsed time period: within 2 days or less, 7 days or less, less than 1 month, less than 3 months, less than 9 months. Analysis of Indigenous status is by self-reported indication on the associated last ACAT assessment record made before entry into aged care. Disaggregation by state and territory is based on the location of the aged care service. Disaggregation by remoteness and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) is based on the recipient's postcode at time of assessment. Presented as:
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Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) calculated separately for each service type and elapsed time period. |
Numerator: | Number of aged care recipients who first commence a service within elapsed time periods during the financial year. |
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Denominator: | Total number of aged care recipients who first commence a service during the financial year. |
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Disaggregation: | 2016–17—State and territory, by service type, by:
2016–17—Nationally by service type, by 2011 SEIFA IRSD deciles (not reported). Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2018 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting: 2016–17. This indicator needs to be interpreted with care. The measure of 'elapsed time' is utilised because the period of time between entry into residential aged care or commencement of a Home Care Package and the ACAT approval may be due to factors which cannot be categorised as 'waiting' time. These include:
From 1 August 2013, the new Home Care Packages Programme commenced, replacing the previous Community Aged Care Packages (CACP), Extended Aged Care at Home (EACH) and Extended Aged Care at Home Dementia (EACHD) packages. Reporting for Home Care Packages is initially by 2 broad groups of packages—levels 1–2 and levels 3–4—due to the relatively small numbers of initial recipients of Home Care Package levels 1 and 3. Level 1 packages support people with basic care needs; level 2 packages support people with low level care needs; level 3 supports people with intermediate care needs; level 4 supports people with high level care needs. From 1 July 2014, as part of Australian Government reforms to the aged care system, the distinction between low care and high care was removed for permanent residential aged care. Therefore, residential care data from 2014–15 onwards will be reported for total residential care only. (Residential care data for previous years was reported disaggregated by low care and high care). |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN].N |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Minor work required, the measure needs minor work to meet the intention of the indicator. Consideration to be given to collect "reason for delayed uptake" where elapsed time is greater than 3 months. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 30–Elapsed time for aged care services, 2017 Health, Superseded 30/01/2018 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 30–Elapsed time for aged care services, 2019 Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 |