MBA621: Analysis of Australia's Ageing Population and Healthcare

This presentation examines the impact of Australia's ageing population on its healthcare system, focusing on community healthcare services. It begins with an introduction to the growing global and Australian ageing demographics, highlighting the increasing need for healthcare services. The presentation then provides statistics on Australia's ageing population, including age distribution and health status, alongside an overview of relevant healthcare policies and services, such as inpatient, outpatient, and community care. The analysis delves into the challenges the healthcare system faces, particularly in addressing chronic diseases and the needs of a multicultural aged population. A significant portion is dedicated to community care services in Australia, detailing their characteristics, the diseases they cover, and their effectiveness, efficiency, and equity. The presentation also discusses the funding models, emphasizing the role of state and territory governments. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving aged care services, including prioritizing community-based care, supporting various care settings, and encouraging research to evaluate outcomes and costs. The presentation concludes by summarizing the key points and emphasizing the importance of community care in providing quality interventions 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)

Stats related to healthcare
services for aged population is
Australia
 As per the data of Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare
(2018) , every 3 in 10 Medicare
claims comes from an aged person
over 65 years of age.
 8 in 10 aged individual receives
community care or home care facility
as well as residential care facility.
 As per the data, more than 6.2
million people aged over 65 claimed
Medicare in the year 2015
(Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare 2018). (National Institutes of Health 2018)

The challenges of healthcare
services in Australia
 The primary challenge for Australia
healthcare system is to understand the
cumulative need of aged population of multi
cultural Australian aged population as well
as managing their emergence of chronic
disease (Department of Health 2018).
 To determine it, the Australian Health Survey
conducted a study as per which, the most
common long-term health conditions are
arthritis (49%), Hypertensive disease (38%),
hearing loss (35%), vascular diseases (22%),
diabetes (15%) and cancer (7%) (Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare 2018).
(Department of Health 2018)

Community care service in
Australia
 Community healthcare services are one of the important aspect of aged
care services in Australia which is funded by both public and private
healthcare facilities.
 These community bases services helps in specific activities such as
• immunization services;
• smoking cessation programs
• Providing aged care and awareness programs
• nutrition awareness campaigns and
• weight loss programs

Community care service in
Australia
 The Australian Government sanctions a large
amount of healthcare funding for medical
services as well as it helps to subsidize the
medications for the population using
community healthcare services.
 Such community healthcare services are
mostly used by indigenous communities, non-
Australian origin communities such as Greek,
Chinese and Indian communities as their food,
diet and medication culture are different from
the medication culture followed in Australia
(Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
2018).

Community care service in
Australia
 The diseases which are being covered using community healthcare
services are:
 Chronic disease management
 Disability services
 Health promotional camps,
 Mental health services
 Refugee health services
 Substance abuse services
 Childcare and allied health services

Characteristics of this service
 It helps to increase the efficiency and
effectiveness of healthcare services for aged
population of a specific community by
providing them culturally competent
healthcare services (McPake and Mahal
2017).
 It improves the care quality by ensuring that
the patients receive right care at right time.
 it also aligns with the primary healthcare
system so that compliance to the healthcare
standards can be determined (Shrivastava,
Shrivastava and Ramasamy 2013).