Medicare-subsidised GP, specialist and allied health attendances

Figure 4.2 is an interactive map and bar chart showing variation in the use of Medicare-subsidised services by SA4 region and sex for people in the dementia study cohort living in the community or living in residential aged care.

Figure 4.2: GP-related, specialist and allied health care attendances among people in the dementia cohort, by place of residence, SA4 region of residence and sex, 2019

Figure 4.2 is an interactive map and bar chart showing variation in the use of Medicare-subsidised services by SA4 region and sex for people in the dementia study cohort living in the community or living in residential aged care. Types of service shown are total GP, GP chronic disease management, nursing and/or Aboriginal health worker, specialist (total, geriatric medicine, general medicine, neurology and psychiatry), and allied health (total, optometry and podiatry) attendances. Measures of use are percentage of people who used the service, the average number of attendances per person who used the service and the average number of attendances per person in the cohort. There are 5 colour gradients. SA4s can be selected by state/territory and capital city.

Notes

  1. The dementia study cohort refers to 158,730 people aged 30 and over who were living in Australia in 2019 and had a dementia record in the NIHSI.
  2. The geographies in this report are based on where a person lived, not where they received services. Data are only presented for states/territories with hospital data in the NIHSI.  
  3. ‘Percentage’ is the proportion of people in the dementia cohort with at least one service recorded in the NIHSI in 2019.
  4. “Mean (Service users)” is the mean number of attendances per person for people in the dementia cohort who used the service at least once in 2019.
  5. “Mean (cohort)” is the mean number of attendances per person for all people in the dementia cohort, regardless of whether they used the service in 2019.
  6. Age-standardised rates were calculated where population and service counts allowed (see Data tables S2.1- S2.12).
  7. A region is blank if a value could not be published due to data quality or confidentiality concerns.

Data tables: GP-related, specialist and allied health care attendances among people in the dementia cohort, by place of residence, SA4 region of residence and sex

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