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

Figure 33. Definitions of Aged Care Terms

Definitions

Allocated Places include all places allocated at the time of the stocktake. It is the sum of all operational places, offline
places and provisionally allocated places, but excluding the results of the ACAR for that year (since the results of the
ACAR is based on the stocktake of that year).

Operational Places include all places operational at the time of the stocktake.

Provisionally Allocated Places have been allocated but are not yet operational and are not offline.

Offline Places are places which have been operational in the past, but as at 30 June 2015 are not providing care due to
reasons like renovations or rebuilding of residential aged care facilities and the provider is receiving no Australian
Government subsidy for these places.

Diagram showing relationship between defined terms:




Residential care includes flexible residential care places in the: Multi-Purpose Service (MPS) Programme, Aged Care
Innovative Pool Programme and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Programme
which are notionally allocated as high care and low care residential care places.

Home care (High care) includes Home care Level 3 and Level 4 places only.

Home care (Low care) includes Home care Level 1 and Level 2 places and the flexible Home care places in the: Multi-
Purpose Service (MPS) Programme, Aged Care Innovative Pool Programme and the National Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Programme.




In addition, at 30 June 2015, there were 1,641 residential aged care places in the region which
were provisionally allocated. Early in 2016, the results of the latest Aged Care Allocation Round
were announced. In the Sunshine Coast aged care region, an additional 207 residential aged care
places were allocated, as well as 110 low care and 110 high care home care places (Australian
Government 2016b).

The national benchmark for aged care places is 125 places by 2021-22, comprising 80 places in a
residential setting and 45 places in a home care setting (Australian Government 2016a). In 2013
and before recent reforms, the benchmark ratio was 113 places in total, comprising 44 low care
and 42 high care places in a residential setting and 27 places in a home care setting (Australian
Government 2013). Therefore, rather than benchmark the current 2016 provision against future
targets, a target has been developed which sits between the 2013 target, and the 2021-22 target
to allow a transition to the higher rates of provision. The benchmarks used in this analysis are
shown in Table 21 below.




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