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Trends in Aged Care Services: some implications

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The Australian community places significant importance on older people having access to high quality and cost effective aged care services. This is reflected in current institutional and regulatory arrangements, which give considerable weight to achieving equity of access and a minimum acceptable standard of service quality. The Commission research paper, Trends in Aged Care Services: some implications builds on earlier work by the Commission in the areas of demographic change, health and aged care. The study analyses major trends in both demand for aged care services and the supply of these services. It also explores the implications for the future structure and mix of aged care services, the aged care workforce, and the capacity of the sector to lift its productivity growth. It notes that the ageing of Australia's population will call for the provision of aged care services to much larger numbers of people over the next few decades. Further, these services will need to meet the challenges posed by the increasing diversity of older people in terms of their care needs, preferences and affluence.

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  • Productivity Commission, 2008. "Trends in Aged Care Services: some implications," Research Papers 0803, Productivity Commission, Government of Australia.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:prodrp:0803
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    1. Kaambwa, Billingsley & Chen, Gang & Khadka, Jyoti & Milte, Rachel & Mpundu-Kaambwa, Christine & Woods, Taylor-Jade & Ratcliffe, Julie, 2021. "A preference for quality: Australian general public's willingness to pay for home and residential aged care," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 289(C).
    2. Henry Ergas, 2009. "Providing Aged Care: The Case for Reform," Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics, vol. 16(2), pages 21-44.
    3. Gillian Stockwell‐Smith & Ursula Kellett & Wendy Moyle, 2010. "Why carers of frail older people are not using available respite services: an Australian study," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 19(13‐14), pages 2057-2064, July.
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    Keywords

    aged care; trends; social product system; aged care services; aged care workforce; demographic change; health and aged care;
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    JEL classification:

    • D - Microeconomics
    • H - Public Economics
    • I - Health, Education, and Welfare

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