Caring Places: planning for aged care

This report analyses the impact of the ageing population and projected dementia rates on every federal electorate in Australia from 2010 to 2050. Caring Places Volume 2 released on 25 February was commissioned to project the future requirements for aged care places and packages at the jurisdictional level, Aged Care Planning Regions (ACPRs), and Commonwealth Electoral Divisions (CEDs). The key figures that came out of the report include: *There will be a shortfall of 279,000 aged care places by 2050 *Dementia is a key driver of this increased demand *There will be shortages in both community and residential care places