Aged care
Alternative labels
Residential aged care
Older people care
Aged care services
Report
Exploring pathways for younger people living in residential aged care
Aged care services in Australia are provided based on need and, due to a range of circumstances, younger people (aged less than 65 years) are living in permanent residential aged care. Using linked data, this report explores a cohort of more than 27,900 younger people who lived in permanent residential aged care at some stage...
Submission
Support at home: response to the Department of Health and Aged Care discussion paper (October 2022)
On 25 November 2022, UARC submitted its response to the Department of Health and Aged Care's second discussion paper on the design of the new program for in-home aged care.
Policy report
Policy futures: a reform agenda
It is intended that this publication will serve to increase the accessibility of valuable evidence and experiences to policy-makers within Australia. The University of Queensland and the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust also hope that it will encourage more partnership approaches toward developing public policy that are informed by broad groups of experts, including Churchill Fellows.
Report
Australia’s Aged Care sector: full-year report 2021–22
This report 2021-22 finds that the financial performance of many aged care providers has deteriorated in the past year. It also presents new evidence about the challenges in securing a sufficiently skilled aged care workforce.
Evaluation
Process evaluation of Carer Gateway
A summary report on the findings of the process evaluation of Carer Gateway conducted between 2020 to 2021. The process evaluation examines the implementation of Carer Gateway. It provides key findings and recommendations. Carer Gateway is a Commonwealth funded national program launched in April 2020. It provides online, telephone and face-to-face support to carers across...