Aged care statistical overviews

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare have released two overviews related to aged care:

• Residential aged care in Australia 2010-11: a statistical overview provides a comprehensive overview of Australian Government-funded aged care, with information on residential aged care facilities, their residents, admissions and separations, and residents' dependency levels. There were around 169,000 people living in residential aged care at 30 June 2011, nearly all on a permanent basis. 77% were aged 80 and over and 57% were aged 85 and over.  70% of permanent residents were female.

• Aged care packages in the community 2010-11: a statistical overview describes the key characteristics of three types of community aged care programs: Community Aged Care Packages (CACP) and Extended Aged Care at Home (EACH) and Extended Aged Care at Home Dementia (EACHD . At 30 June 2011, there were 50, 900 recipients of care packages. About 1,200 providers delivered low-care packages, 500 delivered high-care packages and 340 providers delivered high-care specialised dementia packages.