Community Healthcare Services for Australia's Ageing Population

Australia’s
ageing
population
AND COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

Introduction
 As mentioned in the data of United
Nations (2015
), the aging population of world is
growing at an unprecedented rate
as mote than 8% of the world
population is aged (over 65 years).
 The data of National Institute on
Aging also determined that by the
year 2050, this percentage is
supposed to reach at 17% of entire
world population.

Introduction
 This indicated towards a wide range of
healthcare related needs for older
population, which is growing everyday.
 Different Prevention and control
strategies of several health concerns of
aged population requires a
multifaceted approach so that
incorporating active association of
health, social welfare, rural/urban
development and legal sectors
becomes possible (Census.gov 2018).
(Census.gov 2018)

Aging population stats
 As per the data of Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare
(2018) more than 3.5 million people
were above the age of 65 in the year
2016.
 Within this half of the older people
confesses some degree of disability,
or ailment but three-quarters of the
pollution confesses that health
status is good due to the available
healthcare amenities.
(National Institutes of Health 2018)

Aging population stats
 Further the stats also revealed that half
of Australia's older people (57%, or 2.1
million) were aged 65–74, one-third were
aged 74–84 (30%, or 1.1 million), and
13% were aged 85 and over (487,000).
 This stats are expected to grow
tremendously by the year 2046 as 35%
will be 74–84 years, and 19% will be 85
or above (National Institutes of Health
2018).
(National Institutes of Health 2018)

Healthcare policies for aged
population
 As the healthcare related needs of
Australian aged population is growing,
the government is trying to resolve all
the non communicable conditions and
trying to incorporate different healthcare
service
 such as inpatient, outpatient services,
healthcare homes and community care
services so that all the healthcare
concerns of such population, living in a
specific community can be addressed
(Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare 2018).
(National Institutes of Health 2018)