2017-04-11 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 1 Housing Needs Assessment

               needs (and funding continues to be provided under the Aged Care Funding
               Instrument (ACFI) classification of residents);
          o    All care provided on an ageing in place basis;
          o    Encouraging aged care providers to build new or significantly refurbish facilities to
               create additional capacity and enhance quality and amenity of accommodation to
               residents. (Australian Government 2016d)

Benchmarking at the Regional Scale

A total of 73 aged care planning regions have been identified around Australia (Australian
Government 2016a). The allocation and funding of residential aged care and home care places
are based on a needs assessment for each of these aged care planning regions. These areas can
be amended or benchmarking can be undertaken at the broader State level.

The Sunshine Coast aged care planning region encompasses the Sunshine Coast Council, Noosa
Shire Council and much of the Gympie Regional Council area (including the city of Gympie itself
but excluding Kilkivan SA2).

An analysis of the current and planned provision of residential aged care places in the Sunshine
Coast aged care planning region has been undertaken compared to Australian Government
targets. Home care places were also considered as these are relevant to assessing need for
residential care, for example, if there was an over-provision of residential aged care this might be
partially due to a lack of home care services forcing people into centre-based care.

The existing provision of aged care services in the Sunshine Coast aged care planning region is
shown in Table 1 below. At 30 June 2015, there were 3,878 residential aged care places in the
region that were operational and an additional 102 places were offline (see Figure 33 for
definitions of aged care terms) (Australian Government 2016c). There were also a total of 1,586
operational home care places, made up of 1,102 low care places (level 1 and 2), and 484 high care
places (level 3 and 4).




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