Residential aged care in Australia 2008–09: a statistical overview

Residential aged care in Australia 2008–09: a statistical overview; provides comprehensive statistical information on residential aged care facilities and services, their residents, admissions and separations, and residents; dependency levels. At 30 June 2009, there were over 178,000 residential aged care places, an increase of 1.6% compared with 30 June 2008. Almost 82,000 permanent residents (59%) had a recorded diagnosis of dementia at 30 June 2009. Other recorded health conditions affecting residents included circulatory diseases (42,000 residents) and diseases of the musculoskeletal and connective tissue (26,800 residents).