National Disability Agreement: h-Proportion of carers of people with disability accessing support services to assist in their caring role (h-interim), 2011

(Interim) Number of disability support service users aged 0–64 years with an informal carer, where the service user accessed services to assist the carer in their caring role, in the reporting period.

(Interim) Number of disability support service usersaged 0–64 years with an informal carer in the reporting period.

The following disaggregations will be presented:

State/territory by

Carer sex (male, female, total) by carer age group (under 45 years, 45–64, 65 years and above, total)
Carer relationship to care recipient/service user (wife/husband/partner, mother, father, son/son-in-law/daughter/daughter-in-law, other, total)
Age of care recipient/service user (0-4, 5-14, 15-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64 years, total)
Carer primary status (primary carer, non-primary carer, total)
Carer residency status (co-resident, non-resident, total)
Disaggregations will be presented for each of the following categories of services:

1. In-home accommodation support (service types 1.05 and 1.06)

2. Community access (service types 3.01, 3.02 and 3.03)

3. Respite (service types 4.01, 4.02, 4.03, 4.04 and 4.05).

Where possible, respite services will be further disaggregated as follows:

i. Own home respite (service type 4.01)

ii. Centre-based respite/respite homes (service type 4.02)

iii. Host family respite/peer support respite (service type 4.03)

iv. Flexible respite (service type 4.04)

v. Other respite (service type 4.05)