Long-Term Aged Care: Expenditure Trends and Projections

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Acknowledgments, Overview

1 Introduction
1.1 What is meant by 'the aged' and 'long-term aged care'?
1.2 Structure of the industry
1.3 Report outline

2 Demand for long-term aged care
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Institutional constraints on demand
2.3 The ageing of Australia's population
2.4 Disability amongst the aged
2.5 The use of subsidised services
2.6 Choices in care modes
2.7 Income and wealth of the aged
2.8 Concluding comments

3 Costs of long-term aged care
3.1 Drivers of residential long-term aged care unit costs
3.2 Estimates of residential care unit costs
3.3 Estimates of home and community care unit costs: the HACC program and CACPs
3.4 How are long-term aged care unit costs likely to change in the future?

4 Trends in long-term aged care expenditure
4.1 Methodology
4.2 A snapshot of long-term aged care expenditure
4.3 Trends in government funding of nursing homes
4.4 Trends in government funding of hostels
4.5 Trends in government funding of the Home and Community Care (HACC) program
4.6 Aggregate government long-term aged care expenditure

5 Long-term aged care projections
5.1 Projection methodology
5.2 Demographic and GDP projections
5.3 Nursing home projections
5.4 Hostel and Community Aged Care Package projections
5.5 Other long-term aged care projections: the HACC program, carers' pensions and informal care
5.6 Total long-term aged care projections
5.7 The impact of different projection scenarios
5.8 Comparison with other long-term aged care expenditure projections
5.9 Concluding comments

Appendix A Other aged care expenditures

Appendix B Data for base case projections and variations

Appendix C The Development of long-term aged care policy

Appendix D Time series data for chapter 4

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