Percentile Rank Calculator for Residential Aged Care Star Ratings (Now With May 2026 Extract)
In December 2022 the Department of Health and Aged Care released a star rating system which helps people be more informed when selecting a government-funded aged care home.…
In this article I share a few graphs made from the data used by the Sector Performance Report (July to October 2025), published by the Aged Care Quality and Safety…
Providing person-centred care means communicating with people in the language they prefer. For many older Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds…
Aged care services across Australia are required to measure how satisfied their residents are with their care and quality of life. However, there’s a problem with how these…
The latest Australian aged care star ratings have continued the upward trend. Below I show two animated histograms highlighting how star ratings have changed over time until…
In this article I share interactive graphs that allow readers to explore trends in Australian aged care star ratings for various groups of homes.
In this article, I share a ridgeline plot showing the evolution in the distribution of Australian aged care star ratings since they were introduced. I specifically use the…
In this article, I visualise the most recent year of Australian residential aged care star ratings. Using a Sankey chart, I show the flow of star ratings between quarters.…
Some time ago I designed a frequency chart for displaying how common various combinations of aged care star ratings are. However, while broad patterns were easy to make out…
Gathering feedback from aged care consumers, representatives, visitors, and staff is key to improving the quality of care offered by aged care services. While constructive…
Potential Underreporting of Pressure Injuries in the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program
In this analysis I consider potential underreporting of pressure injuries in the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program by modelling the reporting of zero…
In this article I aim to provide some visualisations and analysis of the star rating extract for Q3 FY22-23, released by the Australian Government Department of Health and…
In this analysis I summarise the full list of certified rest home providers in New Zealand, a publicly available dataset, released by the Ministry of Health-Manatū Hauora (20…
Both positive and negative feedback contribute to the continuous improvement of aged care services. Positive feedback recognises and reinforces what is working well, while…
In this analysis I look at the impact of allowing pets in aged care. Some research has been done that suggests keeping pets in residential aged care can be therapeutic for…
In this article I share some interactive graphs that give insight into the people using aged care services in Australia. My aim was to highlight trends, age structure, and…
I have previously performed descriptive analysis of the star ratings for Q2 FY22-23. In this article, I used the same dataset, and a linear model to assess the importance of…
The service level data for aged care star ratings is now available (Australian Government, Department of Health and Aged Care 2023), but in its unprocessed form it is hard…
I analysed the results of the Staff Feedback Survey delivered by MOA Benchmarking (2022) to members that provide disability support services and I have shared the results…
The world is unpredictable. In a particular month, a person with a low risk of falls may experience more falls than someone with a high risk. If the risk of falls has…
The 2020 and 2021 flu seasons in Australia did not arrive. In fact, in Figure 1 it is hard to even make out the lines representing the weekly number of confirmed flu cases…
