02 September 2011

Aged care packages in the community 2009-10: a statistical overview

This report, released on 31st August 2011, describes the key characteristics of services and recipients of aged care packages in the community and also looks at the distribution of services relative to the needs of the population. At 30 June 2010 there were around 47,700 recipients of care packages. Around 1,150 providers delivered low-care packages, 370 providers delivered high-care packages and 240 providers delivered high-care specialised dementia packages.

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