On the eve of Christmas the Morrison Government has quietly revealed more than 110,000 older Australians are still waiting for aged care services at home.
\nIt is completely unacceptable that in a wealthy country like Australia so many older vulnerable people can\u2019t get the aged care they need.
\nThese figures underscore how woefully inadequate Scott Morrison\u2019s response was to his own Royal Commission\u2019s interim report \u2013 particularly when it comes to the home care crisis.
\nEven with the Government\u2019s additional home care packages announced last month there will still be more than 100,000 older Australians waiting for care they have been approved for but are not receiving.
\nThe figures the Government has released late and just prior to Christmas, on the home care crisis, are damning.
\nSome older Australians are still waiting more than two years for home care.
\nRecent figures revealed\u00a0almost 20,000 older Australians were forced into residential aged care when they wanted to receive care at home.
\nIn the last year (2017\/18) for which figures were available 16,000 older Australians sadly died while waiting for home care.
\nThe Liberals have been asleep at the wheel for six years, with four Ministers and billions ripped out while Australia\u2019s aged care system has lurched from one crisis to another.
\nScott Morrison and the Government must do better to ensure older Australians get the quality aged care services they deserve now \u2013 older Australians and their loved ones cannot afford to wait any longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the eve of Christmas the Morrison Government has quietly revealed more than 110,000 older Australians are still waiting for aged care services at home. It is completely unacceptable that in a wealthy country like Australia so many older vulnerable people can\u2019t get the aged care they need. These figures underscore how woefully inadequate Scott … Continue reading “NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS: MORE THAN 110,000 OLDER AUSTRALIANS STILL WAIT FOR HOME CARE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}