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You are here: Home Reports & data Aged care Interfaces between aged care and health systems in Australia—where do older Australians die?
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Interfaces between aged care and health systems in Australia—where do older Australians die?

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Release Date: 09 Jun 2021
Topic: Aged care

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2021) Interfaces between aged care and health systems in Australia—where do older Australians die?, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 04 July 2022.

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This report uses linked data to determine an indicative setting at death (whether people had used hospital, residential aged care or other aged care near death). In particular, aged care plays a considerable role in caring for people at the end of their lives—and the older people are, the more likely they are to be living in residential aged care when they die.

  • ISBN: 978-1-76054-841-4
  • Cat. no: AGE 106
  • Pages: 12
Findings from this report:
  • For people aged 85 and over, residential aged care was the most common place of death (50%), followed by hospital (40%)

  • Of older people who were living in residential aged care in the week before death, 79% died in residential aged care

  • Of older people not living in residential aged care in the week before death, 7 in 10 (71%) died in hospital

  • For people aged 65 and over, hospital was the most common place of death (50%), followed by residential aged care (36%)

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