Wyvernsridge 🌻:solidarity: on Nostr: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-14/aged-care-reforms-rba-deja-vu/104349594 The ...
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The aged care reforms aimed at people staying in their own homes sound great BUT:
- Where do the growing numbers of elderly (particularly single women) who don't own a house go? Most aged care facilities [don't call it a home, because they are more like factory farms] have very limited numbers of "concessional places" that will take 85% of the resident's age pension to pay for their room and board [but no luxury items, such as access to wifi, or wine with dinner, or even newspapers!]
- Anywhere outside the most metropolitan areas, home services providers are scarce as hens' teeth [what the government coyly describes as "a thin market". Just 60Km from the Federal Parliament, my in-laws cannot find anybody to do their lawns, or clean the house or do personal services. And when they approach a larger company, they are not interested because going through the age care system means it takes forever for them to get paid. So what do my in-laws do?
I will argue forever that the whole commercial age care system is rotten to the core and needs to be taken over totally by the government
The aged care reforms aimed at people staying in their own homes sound great BUT:
- Where do the growing numbers of elderly (particularly single women) who don't own a house go? Most aged care facilities [don't call it a home, because they are more like factory farms] have very limited numbers of "concessional places" that will take 85% of the resident's age pension to pay for their room and board [but no luxury items, such as access to wifi, or wine with dinner, or even newspapers!]
- Anywhere outside the most metropolitan areas, home services providers are scarce as hens' teeth [what the government coyly describes as "a thin market". Just 60Km from the Federal Parliament, my in-laws cannot find anybody to do their lawns, or clean the house or do personal services. And when they approach a larger company, they are not interested because going through the age care system means it takes forever for them to get paid. So what do my in-laws do?
I will argue forever that the whole commercial age care system is rotten to the core and needs to be taken over totally by the government