Pathways in Aged Care (PIAC)
The PIAC link map consists of linkage of aged care activity data from the National Aged Care Data Clearinghouse between 1st July 1997 and 30th June 2020, with death records from the National Death Index between 1 July 1997 and 31st December 2020 in Australia. It includes activity data for home support, home care, residential care, transition care and aged care eligibility assessments. The dataset contains information on over 122 million aged care service events for more than 4 million people.
Study design
Registry
Number of participants at first data collection
4,000,000 (participants)
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1997 (linkage)
2020 (inception)
Primary Institutions
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
Links
gen-agedcaredata.gov.au/topics/pathways-in-aged-care
gen-agedcaredata.gov.au/resources/publications/2023/april/pathways-in-aged-care-2020-technical-guide
aihw.gov.au/about-our-data/our-data-collections/pathways-in-aged-care-link-map
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
No funding information available
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Mortality data
- Social care data
Engagement
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