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Table 13A.8
Table 13A.8
Size and distribution of residential aged care services with over
80 per cent low care residents, June 2008 (a), (b), (c), (d), (e)
Unit NSW (f) Vic Qld WA SA Tas ACT NT Aust
Residential services no. 100 74 34 26 11 9 – 1 255
Places no. 4 468 3 168 1 520 1 016 410 231 – 57 10 870
Occupancy rate % 89.2 92.6 89.6 92.9 96.7 95.8 – 71.2 91.0
Places by locality
Major cities % 73.2 52.7 60.7 84.8 57.3 .. – .. 64.0
Inner regional % 17.5 36.8 24.9 – 5.9 51.9 .. .. 22.8
Outer regional % 8.8 10.4 11.7 12.6 36.8 43.7 .. 100.0 12.3
Remote % 0.2 – 0.7 – – – .. – 0.2
Very remote % 0.3 .. 2.0 2.6 – 4.3 .. – 0.7
Service size
1–20 places % 5.3 4.6 9.2 7.9 8.3 25.1 – – 6.4
21–40 places % 24.3 21.7 17.0 34.9 25.9 31.6 – – 23.6
41–60 places % 35.2 52.1 31.6 23.4 12.4 43.3 – 100.0 38.2
61+ places % 35.2 21.6 42.1 33.8 53.4 – – – 31.8
(a) The occupancy rate is defined as the number of residents in care as a proportion of operational
places.
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
Services have been defined as high care, low care or mixed care based on the proportion of high
care and low care residents in each service. Excludes Multi-Purpose Services and flexibly funded
services.
In March 2008, the Residential Classification Scale (RCS) was replaced by the Aged Care
Funding Instrument (ACFI), but some residents remained under the RCS in June 2008. These
calculations use both RCS and ACFI as they applied at June 2008. See Box 13.1 in the Aged care
services chapter for more detail on these classifications.
See footnotes to table 13A.2 for detail on regional data classification.
This table shows occupancy rates of services that have been categorised on the basis of the
proportions of high care or low care residents. Therefore this table cannot be used to draw valid
conclusions relating to the occupancy of places of a particular care level.
Excludes one service in NSW with 60 places, which is included in calculations for tables 13A.7
and 13A.10.
Source :
– Nil or rounded to zero. .. Not applicable
DoHA (unpublished).
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