GEN data: Admissions into aged care CURF

Confidentialised unit record file (CURF) with selected information about admissions into home care, residential care, transition care and short-term restorative care during the financial year. This CURF accompanies the Admissions into aged care topic.

Data are provided in an Excel file and include the following variables:

• Date: year
• Geography: state/territory, Aged Care Planning Region (ACPR)
• Admission: care type, first admission flag (for home care and residential care), care level (for home care)
• Recipient: sex, age group, Indigenous status, preferred language, country of birth

History of changes

• Data for transition care are included in the residential care CURFs for 2013–14 to 2017–18 and 2018–19, and in the home care CURFs for 2019–20 and later. Transition care data were not available for 2021–22.
• A flag indicating first admission to a care type was added to CURFs for 2017–18 and later, including the time series CURFs for residential care and transition care (2013–14 to 2017–18) and home care (2013–14 to 2017–18 and 2008–09 to 2018–19).
• First admission flag for transition care is not available from 2020 onwards.
• The counting method for home care admissions was amended following changes to the Home Care Packages Programme in 2016–17. Revised home care CURFs, for 2013–14 to 2017–18 and 2008–09 to 2018–19, were created using the amended method to support comparable time series analysis.
• Superseded CURFs are not comparable with CURFs for 2019–20 and later for home care.
• Short-term restorative care added to CURFs for 2022–23 or later.
• The age group of the clients was based on their age in years at 30 June of the reference year on and before 2022–23; and the age group of the clients was based on their age in years when they were admitted to an aged care of the reference year for 2023–24.
• From 2025, the data are provided in an Excel file, instead of zipped file.