Wednesday 3 September 2014

Mobile Denture Clinics in Melbourne: Australia’s ageing population

Mobile Denture Services is rather an untapped entity. With an ageing population here in Australia, it is ever more important for businesses to be incorporating old aged care systems into their programs. Denture Clinic Melbourne that offer mobile care are leading the way in aged care in Melbourne.

Caring for the elderly right at home is an important part of the Australian aged care industry. In home care is an ethical responsibility for business that provides services that target our senior citizens. Denture care is one such service. Hospital patients with dentures are also in need of mobile care. The great thing about in hospital care compared with in home care is that patients are more readily available to treat, with professional staff on hand if necessary. Aged Care Facilities are another area where mobile denture care will be necessary. In this way, mobile facilities will be able to set up short and treat more than one patient at any given aged care home.

The challenges to Australia’s ageing demographics will put more pressure of aged care services nation wide. To understand why we are facing an ageing population, The Australian Government Treasury explains. “Firstly, Australian families are, on average, having fewer children. Birth rates started declining in the late 1960s… For the last 20 years or so the birth rate has fallen below the replacement rate, meaning that without migration Australia’s population would eventually begin to fall.” Statistics reveal, “The proportion of Australia’s population aged over 65 years has grown from 8 per cent in 1970-71 to 13 per cent in 2001-02.”

Melbourne based Insight Economics Pty Ltd published a report on Demand for Dental Services in Australia in August last year. Relevant to our discussion on denture market trends in Australia, the report issued some interested results. “Some of the more notable structural effects on the side of consumers of dental services include changing consumer expectations. This has been exemplified over time by a strong movement away from removing teeth and replacing them with dentures or partial dentures in favour of implants, crowns and bridges and restorative interventions.” The greatest shift in consumers of dental services had been how they value appearance of practicality. We aren’t yanking as many teeth out as we used to.

According to the report “One of the most notable improvements in oral health that has occurred throughout the developed world is the marked reduction in the share of people without any teeth… Not surprisingly, dental people demand significantly more dental services than do the edentulous.”
  • The share of the edentulous in the total population has declined from 14.4 per cent in 1987-88 to over 10 per cent in 1989 to 6.4 per cent in 2004-05.
  • The share is projected to fall to 2.7 to 3.1 per cent by 2021 and 0.4 to 1.0 per cent by 2041.

The revealed demand for dental services increased strongly through the 1990s and into the first decade on the 20th Century. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report Health Expenditure Australia 2003-04, showed that expenditure on dental services in Australia rose from $1.9 billion in 1994-95 to $5.1 billion in 2004-05. As a share of total health expenditure, dental expenditure grew from 4.95 per cent to 5.99 per cent in the same period. The real growth in recurrent expenditure on dental services was about 3.7 per cent per annum.

Melbourne’s Denture Care Center is situated in the heart of Surrey Hills. To find out about their mobile denture clinic and services give them a call on 1300 508 553 or alternatively you can visit their website http://denturecarecentre.com.au/.

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