• Health, Superseded 04/12/2012

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 49-Residential and community aged care services per 1,000 population aged 70+ years, 2011
Health, Superseded 31/10/2011

• The data used to calculate this indicator is from an administrative data collection designed for payment of subsidies to service providers and has accurate data on the number and location of funded aged care places.
• The presented measure excludes information about services delivered to older people under the Home and Community Care (HACC) program.

Approved services submit data to Medicare Australia to claim subsidies from the Australian Government.  This data is provided to the Department of Health and Ageing to administer services under the Aged Care Act 1997 and the Aged Care Principles, and to administer places delivered under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Aged Care Strategy.

The data quality statement was developed by the Department of Health and Ageing and includes comments from the AIHW. The AIHW did not have all of the relevant datasets required to independently verify the data tables for this indicator. For further information see the AIHW website.

Numerator: The data includes all places offered by aged care services subsidised by the Australian Government under the programs identified above.

This indicator does not include services funded through HACC. Further data development is required to develop an indicator of capacity (ie places) available under HACC. As an indication of the relative magnitude of the HACC program, in 2008-09 HACC provided assistance to around 862 000 clients (591 000 clients 70 years or older).