Trends in Aged Care Services: some implications
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 50 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Acknowledgments and Abbreviations - Overview (PDF - 52 Kb)
- 1 Introduction (PDF - 33 Kb)
1.1 Why a study of trends in aged care?
1.2 Some key terms
1.3 Guide to the study - 2 A profile of aged care (PDF - 99 Kb)
2.1 Aged care represents a 'social product system'
2.2 A profile of older Australians requiring care
2.3 Types of care
2.4 Profile of aged care providers
2.5 The role of government in aged care
2.6 Recent trends in aged care - 3 Future demand for aged care services (PDF - 106 Kb)
3.1 The effects of population ageing
3.2 Growing diversity among older Australians
3.3 Availability of aged care services - 4 Equity, efficiency and sustainability (PDF - 149 Kb)
4.1 The roles of equity, efficiency and sustainability
4.2 Recent initiatives to improve equity, efficiency and sustainability
4.3 Some emerging challenges - 5 Quality and choice (PDF - 1414 Kb)
5.1 The role of quality and choice
5.2 Recent initiatives to improve quality and choice
5.3 Demand for greater quality and choice
5.4 Mechanisms to promote consumer centred care
5.5 Some issues for consideration - 6 Workforce: emerging issues (PDF - 147 Kb)
6.1 The aged care workforce - a snapshot
6.2 Formal paid workforce
6.3 Informal carers
6.4 Volunteers - 7 Productivity in aged care (PDF - 83 Kb)
7.1 Why is productivity growth important?
7.2 Measuring productivity
7.3 Performance of the residential aged care sector
7.4 Some emerging opportunities for improving productivity - Appendix A - Recent initiatives to improve the financing and provision of aged care services (PDF - 61 Kb)
- References (PDF - 102 Kb)
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