2018-19 ACAR Consultation - Identifying Residential Aged Care Needs

Overview

The Department of Health is seeking input from a broad range of aged care stakeholders to better determine unmet needs in the provision of residential aged care, particularly in respect to specific geographic locations, special needs and other key issue groups.

Responses to the following short survey will help inform the distribution and targeting approach for the 13,500 residential aged care places to be made available for allocation in the 2018-19 Aged Care Approvals Round (ACAR) process. 

Completing the survey

Participants are asked to identify geographic locations by Statistical Areas Level 3 (SA3), which form part of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard framework .

An interactive SA3 Map Locator is available on the Department's website to enable you to easily identify the SA3 name. As per the example image below, simply search for an address into the field displayed and the SA3 name will appear, highlighted in yellow.

The map also includes filters to display boundaries that may be more familiar to your organisation, including Aged Care Planning Regions, Primary Health Networks and Local Government Areas. 

Multiple surveys can be submitted should your organisation identify unmet need in more than one SA3.

Hint - open the SA3 Map Locator in another tab or window to remain on this page ----> SA3 Map Locator

Note, the SA3 Map Locator does not contain any population data.

Information on aged cohorts and other high level information within a given SA3 from the 2016 Census can be accessed by searching the ABS website’s Quickstats tool.

What is an SA3?

SA3s generally have populations between 30,000 and 130,000 persons. They are often the functional areas of regional towns and cities with a population in excess of 20,000, or clusters of related suburbs around urban commercial and transport hubs within the major urban areas. 

What happens next

Thank you for your response. 

The Department of Health will take this information into account in the distribution and targeting approach for the 13,500 residential aged care places to be made available for allocation in the 2018-19 Aged Care Approvals Round (ACAR) process.