National Healthcare Agreement: PI 26-Residential and community aged care places per 1000 population aged 70+ years, 2013 QS

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Health, Superseded 14/01/2015

Relational attributes

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 26-Residential and community aged care places per 1,000 population aged 70+ years, 2013
Health, Superseded 30/04/2014

Data quality

• 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 Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) 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 DoHA and includes comments from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (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: Based on a stocktake of aged care places which were operational at 30 June 2012. Data for the current reporting period is available October each year.

Aggregated data items are published in the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision's (SCRGSP’s) Report on Government Services, the Reports on the Operation of the Aged Care Act 1997 prepared by DoHA, and in the AIHW’s Aged care statistics series.

Further information on definitions is available in the Aged Care Act 1997 and the Aged Care Principles, in the Residential Aged Care Manual 2009, the draft Community Packaged Care Guidelines 2007, and Transition Care Program guidelines.

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

Residential places are those allocated to an Aged Care Planning Region which were delivered in an Australian Government subsidised residential aged care facility and were operational at 30 June 2012, and includes Multi-Purpose Services and places delivered under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care and Innovative Care Programs provided in a residential aged care facility.

Community care places are those allocated to an Aged Care Planning Region which were operational at 30 June 2012 and includes: Community Aged Care Package (CACP), Extended Aged Care at Home (EACH) and Extended Aged Care at Home Dementia (EACHD), and Multi-Purpose Services and places delivered under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care and Innovative Care Programs (including Consumer Directed Care) provided in the community. Note that it does not include places allocated under the Transition Care Program only for Aged Care Planning Region, as it is not possible to disaggregate these places by Aged Care Planning Region.

This indicator does not include services funded through HACC.

The data used to calculate this indicator are from an administrative data collection designed for payment of subsidies to service providers and have accurate data on the number and location of funded aged care places.

The data items used for the numerator in this indicator are consistent and comparable over time. This indicator is consistent with other publicly available information about aged care places.

Indigenous population projections have been calculated using a different method compared with that used in previous years. This will have a small effect on comparability with results from previous years.

Relational attributes