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Facts about HACC users
Page content: 2009-10 HACC data collection | More facts about HACC service users
2009-10 HACC data collection
Numbers:
- Over 275,000 Victorians received a service from the HACC Program in 2009-10.
Age and sex:
- 63 per cent of clients were aged 70-plus
- 63 per cent were female.
Ethnicity and indigenous status:
- 28 per cent of clients came from 85 nations classified as non English speaking countries.
- One per cent of clients were Indigenous.
Use of HACC services by people born in non-English speaking countries:
Place of residence:
- About 61 per cent of clients live in greater Melbourne.
- Another 105,038 live in rural and regional Victoria.
Living arrangement:
- 43 per cent of clients live alone.
Family carers:
- 32 per cent of clients have a carer, typically a spouse or daughter; this is around 88,000 carers.
Services used:
- Assessment is the service most commonly used with over 93,600 clients followed by Allied Health with over 89,000 clients and Domestic Assistance with over 87,300 clients.
- Across all service types, average provision was just on 45.1 hours per person per annum.
Service mix:
- 59 per cent of clients (163,268 people) received only one kind of HACC service.
- Over 54,600 clients received two types of service.
- About 5,800 clients received five or more services.
Source of referral:
- 44 per cent of clients (or their families) made direct contact with HACC services (that is, self referral).
- GPs referred more than 25,600 people to HACC.
Exit from HACC:
- About 46 per cent of clients ceased receiving services because their condition had improved.
- About 6 per cent of clients who stopped receiving HACC services moved into residential aged care.
More facts about HACC service users
The department has released a fact sheet on HACC clients, services and funding. The report can be downloaded below.
 Home and Community Care fact sheet 2010 - 2011 (93kb, pdf)
Who Gets HACC - A Statisitcal Overview of the Home and Community Care Program in Victorian 2004-06 (1.4mb, pdf)
Who Gets HACC - A Statistical Overview of the Home and Community Care Program in Victoria 2003–04 (1.26mb, pdf)
Who
gets HACC - A Statistical Overview of the Home and Community Care Program in Victoria 2002-03 (231kb, pdf)
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