This paper presents key statistics about transition care services provided to older people directly after discharge from hospital. The Transition Care Program aims to improve recipients' independence and functioning, and has assisted nearly 52,000 people since it started in 2005-06, including 18,000 individuals who received just under 20,300 episodes of transition care in 2010-11. The...

Tasmania is currently experiencing a crucial turning point in its ageing population and therefore needs to focus on the social and economic implications that presents: for labour supply, service demand, community cohesion and commercial markets, as discussed in this report. Australia’s population, like that of most developed countries, is ageing as a result of sustained...

The ageing of the Australian population presents numerous opportunities and it is important to understand how senior Australians view different aspects of their own lives, as well as life in Australia more generally. A summary index is a valuable means of understanding the sentiment of mature age people, and it can be tracked across time...

While the Australian Medicare arrangements provide strong protection for Australians against unmanageable health costs, as people age they are likely to have more chronic conditions leading to increasing costs of health care. In this report, we examine the costs faced by older Australians with chronic health conditions, and explore how many face extreme costs in...

Life expectancy is an indication of how many years a person can expect to live, assuming death rates do not change. The term ‘health expectancy’ is used to describe, within a person’s life expectancy, the expected years spent in various health states from birth to death, such as years with disability. However, disability does not...