Title Carers in Australia : assisting frail older people and people with a disability / Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Published Canberra : Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2004

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	362.610994 Aus/Acs	2004/8	AVAILABLE

Description xvi, 93 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm Series Aged care series, 1325-6025 ; no. 8 Aged care series ; no. 8 Contents Machine derived contents note: 1 Introduction 1 -- 1.1 Background 1 -- 1.2 A dem ographic profile of prim ary carers 3 -- 1.3 Relationship and the m otivation to care 7 -- 1.4 Labour force participation 9 -- 1.5 Discussion 10 -- 2 Care recipients and the w ork of carers 12 -- 2.1 Introduction 12 -- 2.2 Disability, ageing and the need for care 12 -- 2.3 The nature and intensity of caring w ork 16 -- 2.4 Im pact of the caring role on carers 20 -- 2.5 Discussion 25 -- 3 The changing context 27 -- 3.1 Introduction 27 -- 3.2 Population disability 27 -- 3.3 Population ageing 29 -- 3.4 Living arrangem ents and fam ily form ation 31 -- 3.5 Com bining w ork and fam ily 35 -- 3.6 Discussion 36 -- 4 Scenario projections 2003-2013 38 -- 4.1 Background 38 -- 4.2 Approach 39 -- 4.3 M easures and data sources 41 -- 4.4 Construction of future scenarios 43 -- 4.5 Outline of the projection analysis 46 -- 4.6 Inform al care in 1998 46 -- 4.7 Projection results 49 -- 4.8 Projected total carer pools 55 -- 4.9 Conclusion 58 -- 4.10 Discussion 60 -- 5 Inform al care and form al services 62 -- 5.1 Introduction 62 -- 5.2 Patterns of service use by carer availability among CACP recipients 63 -- 5.3 Carer support program s 66 -- 5.4 D iscussion 72 Analysis Carers Aged care Disabled Statistics Trends to 2015 Notes "AIHW Cat. no. AGE 41" "This report is a joint initiative of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. It was principally authored by Cathy Hales ..."--P. x "October 2004" Includes glossary Bibliography Bibliography: pages 89-93 Notes Also available in an electronic version on the Internet. Address as of 11/02/05: http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/age/cia/cia.pdf System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view/print PDF files Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2004 Subject Older people -- Care -- Australia. Caregivers -- Australia. People with disabilities -- Care -- Australia. Author Hales, Cathy. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia. Department of Health and Ageing. LC no. 2005363432 ISSN 1325-6025 ISBN 174024415X

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