At the beginning the data situation had to be clarified. The term “medical care” and the necessary data was defined.

The resulting data set contains people with a national insurance number who live in care homes and are 65+ years old on the qualifying date of the 31^st December 2016. From this people personal data from the attendance allowance database and medical service and insurance data was taken. The observation period was 1.1.2014 - 31.12.2016.

With this data the following research questions were answered:

• mean duration of the stay in the care homes,
• regional distribution of people and care homes,
• number and reasons of ambulance services,
• number and categorization of auxiliary means,
• number of home visits and
• number and categorization of physical/ergotherapeutic services.

A detailed report can be found on the homepage of the main association of the social insurance carriers (in german):

http://www.hauptverband.at/portal27/hvbportal/content/contentWindow?viewmode=content&contentid=10007.789461