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A heartbroken wife has given a harrowing account of her late husband’s time in aged care and how the facility led him down a path of depression, social isolation and physical decline.
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Corcoran, 43, has good reason to be frustrated as she is one of the 6048 people aged under 65 living in permanent aged care.
She describes her six-year stay in aged care as a “nightmare” and says: “Up until recently, every day I felt like killing myself. I can’t move, so I can’t do this – I would have if I could.”
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At today’s Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Department of Health’s In-Home Aged Care division and Department of Social Services’ Disability and Carers division, both admitted that aged care was not a place for younger people with disability.
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The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety turns its attention this week to hearings focused on younger people with disabilities living in residential aged care facilities (RACFs).
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Ahead of giving evidence at the Aged Care Royal Commission hearings in Melbourne this week, Luke Bo’sher outlines his key arguments around why young people end up in aged care and what can be done to stop it happening.
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The royal commission is hearing this week from younger Australians living in residential aged care.
Lisa Corcoran, who spoke with the help of a speech pathologist, made her feelings clear.
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An aged care royal commissioner says the system of younger people with disabilities being stuck in nursing homes is at best a national embarrassment and at worst a national disgrace.
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Senior Commonwealth departmental officials, from both health and social services, took the stand on Tuesday as the royal commission delved into the processes which see young people under 65 years of age with a disability ending up in residential aged care.
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“It’s truly shocking and shouldn’t be allowed to continue,” commissioner Lynelle Briggs said of the difficult and isolated lives of younger aged care residents.
The federal health department denies it has forgotten about the 6000 people aged under 65, who have a disability and are stuck in aged care facilities.
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When Sam Petersen was in her late twenties she had a medical procedure that would change her life.
Speaking to SBS News with the assistance of a speech-generating device, the now 34-year-old went from living independently to being placed in a nursing home.
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The first younger person with a disability to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Aged Care has described her residential aged care facility as “hell”.
Liz Corcoran, 43, told the commission that younger people are stuck living “a prison sentence” in nursing homes because there is nowhere else for them to go.
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The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has commenced its most recent hearings, turning attention to the experiences of young people with disability living in residential aged care facilities.
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Lisa Corcoran, aged 43, has told the Aged Care Royal Commission of her hellish life living in an aged care facility where she alleges she had to fight to be showered more than once a week, was sexually assaulted, and pinched and punched by staff.
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Royal commission hears of plight of young Australians stuck in aged care.
Every day six young Australians are institutionalised in the aged care system because there is nowhere else they can go to receive the care they need.
Senior counsel assisting the commission Peter Rozen QC said it was not appropriate to deliver care services to younger people with a disability in aged care facilities.
Rozen blamed the federal, state and territory governments for failing to adequately recognise the wishes and needs of younger Australians requiring care.
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A young disabled mother forced to live in a nursing home has described having to fight to have a shower more than once a week.
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Younger people with a disability should not be forced to live in nursing homes, a shocked royal commissioner says.
The aged care royal commission has blamed the federal and state governments for the plight of people under 65 living what one man described as a prison sentence in nursing homes.
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Younger people with a disability in rural and remote Australia will continue to end up in nursing homes, the aged care royal commission has been told.
Senior counsel assisting the commission Peter Rozen QC has questioned whether a federal government action plan to reduce the number of younger Australians in aged care will work.
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Lisa Corcoran desperately wants to be able to hug her children again – and to get the hell out of a nursing home.
The 43-year-old hates being stuck in a residential aged care facility, where she has lived for the last six years.
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Younger people are stuck living “a prison sentence” in nursing homes because the federal and state governments have failed to adequately recognise their needs, a royal commission has been told.
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“After experiencing a brain injury, and going through rehabilitation, at the age of 53 years … I had no other option but to enter a nursing home. The nursing home felt like a prison to me.”
Lisa Corcoran shared her story with the royal commission in the hope of helping other young people in residential aged care.
She wants to live the life she wants, but feels her rights have been taken away.
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The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety turns its attention this week to hearings focused on younger people with disabilities living in residential aged care facilities.
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It is hard to live your life surrounded by death. That is the confronting challenge facing around 6,000 young people with disabilities who are in Australian nursing homes.
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Younger people should not be forced into a “brutal and wasted life” in nursing homes because they have nowhere else to go, a royal commission has been told.
Advocates say long-overdue systemic changes are needed to address the problem of people aged under-65 with complex disability support needs who end up in residential aged care.
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