MELBOURNE, Oct 13 (Bernama-Xinhua) -- Emergency departments at Australia's hospitals are unprepared for the country's ageing population, a report has warned, according to Xinhua.
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- The report released on Tuesday from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) said that almost 9 million people sought care at emergency departments nationwide in 2023-24, a quarter of whom were aged 65 and over.
- A landmark intergenerational report released by the federal Treasury in September projected that the proportion of the Australian population aged 65 and over would grow from 17.8 per cent currently to 24.8 per cent by 2066.
- The ACEM report projected that emergency department arrivals for people aged 85 and over will increase by 411 per cent by 2050.
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