Residential aged care in Australia 2010–11: a statistical overview
Author:
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Released:
18 September 2012
Topic:
Cat. no:
AGE 68
ISBN:
978-1-74249-343-5
Summary
Residential aged care in Australia 2010–11 provides comprehensive statistical information on residential aged care facilities, their residents, admissions and separations, and residents dependency levels. At 30 June 2011, there were nearly 185,500 residential aged care places, an increase of more than 2,600 places compared with 30 June 2010. More than 85,200 permanent residents (52%) had a recorded diagnosis of dementia at 30 June 2011. Other recorded health conditions included circulatory diseases (40,000 residents) and diseases of the musculoskeletal and connective tissue (29,400 residents).
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