(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.
Definition
Support services for carers.
Indicator Summary
(Interim) Number of disability support service usersaged 0–64 years with an informal carer in the reporting period.
(Interim) Performance indicator is restricted to DS NMDS service users aged 0– 64 years with an informal carer.
Support services to assist in the caring role are defined in ‘Reported disaggregation’ below.
Specialist psychiatric disability services in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia are not included.
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 …
Calculation rules
- Description
(Interim) Performance indicator is restricted to DS NMDS service users aged 0– 64 years with an informal carer.
Support services to assist in the caring role are defined in ‘Reported disaggregation’ below.
Specialist psychiatric disability services in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia are not included.
(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.
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- Data Element
- Service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY
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- Data Element
- Person—age, total years N[NN]
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- Data Element
- Person—informal carer existence indicator, code N
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- Data Element
- Service event—last service provision date, DDMMYYYY
(Interim) Number of disability support service usersaged 0–64 years with an informal carer in the reporting period.
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- Data Element
- Service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY
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)
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- Data Element
- Service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY
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