Do the elderly take advice?
September 2, 2011
OLDER Australians who receive
community care whilst living in
their own home are the least likely
to enter permanent care within two
years of undergoing an Aged Care
Assessment (ACA), according to a
new report by the Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare.
ACA’s are undertaken when older
Australians want to access certain
aged care programs, and they
include recommendations on
whether the participant should
seek care in their own home or in a
residential setting.
“The care needs of people can
vary considerably when they first
seek assistance from a government
program, and so even at this early
stage different people require
different services—from limited
assistance in a community care
program to high-level care in a
residential facility,” said AIHW
spokesperson Dr Phil Anderson.
The report, which examines
whether older Australians follow
recommendations from ACAs,
found that 54% of older Aussies
who were recommended to live in
low-level residential aged care, who
had not used community care or
residential respite, were admitted
to permanent residential care
within six months of the ACA.
In comparison 26% of people who
lived in low-level residential aged
care, and who used both
residential respite and community
care, accessed permanent
residential aged care within six
months.
“This means that people who did
not use community care were
more likely to access residential
aged care shortly after their Aged
Care Assessment,” Anderson said.
Researchers also found that
around one quarter (or one in six)
older Australians who underwent
an ACA and were advised to live in
low-level residential care did not
do so in the two years after their
first assessment.
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