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James Nutt, 35, views his years in a nursing home as a “sentence”.
A number of younger people who are living, or have lived, in residential aged care will tell the royal commission about their experiences during a hearing in Melbourne next week.
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In an effort to keep young people with disabilities out of aged care facilities, the Summer Foundation has recently launched the prototype of a new type of portable house.
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[lead]The Summer Foundation has lodged its submission to the Aged Care Royal Commission.[/lead]
The submission identifies the key policy and systemic changes needed to stop young people being forced into aged care. It covers what needs to change and how it can happen.
Our 12 recommendations are based on our extensive work with young people in aged care and with providers in the health and aged care sectors.
The people whose stories we used to illustrate the realities of living in aged care were selected from 95 young people who participated in one-on-one conversations with us.
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Horsham’s Oscar Building has helped develop a prototype for portable housing for young people with disabilities.
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We tend to hear a lot about concerns including how to attract more people to the disability industry, how to ensure ongoing quality and how to support job satisfaction for people working in this sector. It’s less common to hear about the possible solutions.
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The Rapid Interim Housing prototype demonstrates what affordable, relocatable, prefabricated and accessible accommodation for people with a newly acquired or rapidly progressing disability can be like.
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The Federal Government today announced new grants for West Australians with disabilities to enable the growth of the National Disability Insurance Scheme workforce.
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The Rapid Interim Housing prototype, developed by the Summer Foundation, is a relocatable modular housing unit, designed to be highly accessible to cater for people with disability.
Catch our much anticipated episode with Luke Bo’sher the CEO of Summer Foundation (and a founding member of DSC), as he gives an insider perspective on the design era of the NDIS and how he stays a true believer.
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How can improvements to the Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) landscape be made to deliver high quality housing options for people with disability?
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In a bid to keep young people with disabilities out of aged care facilities, an organisation in Melbourne has launched a new type of portable house.
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Sitting in attendance at a Royal Commission Community Forum can be an extremely confronting experience, but amongst all the heartbreaking personal accounts of abuse and neglect of elderly people, the one story that affected me the most didn’t actually involve an elderly person at all.
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Young people with disabilities in western Sydney are being offered a rare chance to live independently in a new apartment, rather than in an aged care facility or group home.
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Disability groups have welcomed the federal government’s $528 million pledge for the disability royal commission but say a multi-billion dollar underspend of National Disability Insurance Scheme funds in the budget is a “national disgrace”.
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At the end of last week the Federal Minister for Social Services Paul Fletcher announced a new government action plan to get young people out of aged care.
So what is in the plan, what does it have to do with the NDIS – and what will it mean for young people currently trapped in facilities around the country?
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A new national action plan unveiled last week will aim to halve the number of young people with disability entering residential aged care within six years.
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At the end of last week the Federal Minister for Social Services Paul Fletcher announced a new government action plan to get young people out of aged care.
So what is in the plan, what does it have to do with the NDIS – and what will it mean for young people currently trapped in facilities around the country?
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In the space of two short years, Kirby Littley went from being a young teacher with the world at her feet, to a patient in an aged care home, barely able to speak.
Watch the ABC News Sunday video or read the online article.
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Two separate reports, one by the Summer Foundation and Social Ventures Australia, and another by Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), into the sector forecast to become a $5 billion housing asset class show that while the unmet need is large, it still suffers from a lack of local market information that impedes investment and certainty about revenue flows.
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ALL Australians such as Kirby Littley in nursing homes under the age of 45 — and who are desperate to get out — will be moved into age appropriate accommodation within three years under a major action plan to be unveiled by the Federal Government today.
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STRONG interest has prompted the Summer Foundation to return to Bendigo to help central Victorians make the issues affecting young people with disability entering aged care known.
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Young central Victorians with disability and their carers are being urged to share their experiences of aged care as a living arrangement of last resort.
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The federal government has announced reforms that they hope will improve investor confidence in the fledgling specialist disability accommodation market.
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The federal government is announcing reforms to the Speciality Disability Accommodation market. The changes are designed to create more certainty in the sector and cut red tape for SDA participants.
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An advocacy group for young people in nursing homes is hosting a workshop in Traralgon to ensure those voices are heard in the aged care royal commission.
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