Younger People with Disability in Residential Aged Care Program

This report includes information from the 2007-08 Younger People with Disability in Residential Aged Care Minimum Data Set (YPIRAC MDS).

It summarises the characteristics of people who were ‘on the books’ during 2007-08 and the YPIRAC services they received.

People included in ‘on the books’ are those who accepted YPIRAC services in 2006-07 and continued to receive services (including monitoring only) in 2007-08, along with new starters in 2007-08.

Main features reported for 2007-08 included:

• addition of 376 new service users; up to 580 people accessing YPIRAC-funded services.
• shift in focus from relocating people living in residential aged care accommodation to diverting people living in the community who were at risk of admission to residential aged care.
• Three hundred and ninety eight YPIRAC service users were living in residential aged care; 162 were living in other settings, including private residences and domestic scale disability accommodation; 20 people were in hospital.
• Acquired brain injury (ABI) was the predominant primary disability group – 46% of service users-and more than half of service users with ABI recorded as a primary disability were in residential aged care awaiting alternative accommodation.  Neurological disability was the second most common primary disability, though these users were more evenly spread across the four target groups than service users with ABI.
• The number of young people receiving support because they were living in residential care, or at risk of entering it, doubled between June 2007 and June 2008.