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Figure 11: Percentage of transition care clients whose functional ability was either
maintained or improved during their utilisation of the Transition Care Program,
2018-19 to 2022-23
Clients maintaining or improving
functional ability (%)
Notes:
100
90
80
70
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50
20
0
2018-19
2019-20
2020-21
2021-22
Results
Target
80
84
87
85
2022-23
85
65
65
65
65
77
1. The Modified Barthel Index (MBI) is widely used as a tool to assess client self-care and mobility activities of daily
living. This indicator compares MBI admission and discharge results and determines the proportion of clients who
demonstrate maintained or improved functional ability due to utilisation of the Transition Care Program.
2. In 2021-22, the target for this KPI was reviewed. The revised target for 2022-23 is based on the average of prior
year results.
Data source: Unpublished data, Department of Health.
Percentage of people accessing specialist
community-based palliative care who are
supported to die at home
Rationale
Outcome 2
The preference of the majority of Australians to die at home and not in a hospital
has been well documented. While between 60 and 70 per cent of people state
they want to die at home, only about 14 per cent do so. 12 In addition to potential
distress for patients and families, acute hospital admissions in some patients'
final days of life may create avoidable pressures on the hospital system. This is
likely to become an increasingly significant issue as the population ages and as an
increasing proportion of people live with chronic disease.
The Department of Health contracts Silver Chain to provide specialist
community-based palliative care services in the Perth metropolitan area.
This indicator aims to measure the effectiveness of these services in allowing
patients to die in the comfort of their home, where it is their wish to do so.
A high proportion of people realising their wish to die at home indicates that the
service has appropriate strategies in place to provide in-home care appropriate
to patients' needs and to avoid unplanned hospital admissions.
12. Dying Well, Grattan Institute Report No. 2014-10, September 2014, 2. Available from: http://grattan.edu.au/wpcontent/uploads/2014/09/815-dying-well.pdf
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