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Rapid Interim Housing prototype on show in Geelong

Source: Geelong Advertiser | Reporter: Tamara McDonald

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.

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Source: Disability Services Consulting  | Presenters: Roland and Evie Naufal

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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Source: Social Ventures Australia | Reporter: Rebecca Thomas

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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Source: SBS News | Reporter: Abby Dinham

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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Source: Hello Care | Author: Jakob Neeland

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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Source: News.com.au | Author: Marissa Georgopoulos


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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Source: Pro Bono Australia | Author: Luke Michael


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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Source: Australian Ageing Agenda | Author: Judy Skatssoon


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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Source: Disability Support Guide | Author: Nicole Pope


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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Source: Every Australian Counts | Author: George Taleporos


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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Source: ABC News Sunday  |  Reporter: Jane Norman


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.


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Source: Australian Financial Review | Author: Michael Bleby


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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Source: Geelong Advertiser | Author: Lanai Scarr and Andrew Jefferson


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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Source: Bendigo Advertiser | Author: Emma D’Agostino


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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Source: Bendigo Advertiser | Reporter: Emma D’Agostino


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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Source: The Urban Developer | Reporter: Ana Narvaez


The federal government has announced reforms that they hope will improve investor confidence in the fledgling specialist disability accommodation market.


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Source: The Australian Financial Review | Reporter: Michael Bleby


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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Source: Latrobe Valley Express | Reporter: Anne Simmons


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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Source: ABC Radio National | Producer: Cathy Pryor


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Source: The Australian Financial Review | Reporter: Lucas Baird | Photos: Kelly Barnes


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Source: Australian Ageing Agenda | Reporter: Judy Skatssoon


Aged care providers have been asked what changes could be made to improve the relationship between the aged care system and disability services as part of the royal commission’s exploration of young people in residential care.


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Source: SBS News Radio | Author: Evan Young


Many Australians living with a disability find it difficult to find housing that meets their needs, which has prompted calls for a national register of accessible and affordable existing housing.


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Source: Monash Life | Reporter: Melissa Marino


When it comes to people’s homes, neither Dr Di Winkler nor Dan McKenna are prepared to accept the status quo. The occupational therapist and architect are challenging traditional housing models for a greater social good.


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Source: Pro Bono Australia | Reporter: Luke Michael


Experts believe a new platform helping people with disability find a home could become the Airbnb of accessible housing.


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Source: Pro Bono Australia | Contributor: Professor Jacinta Douglas


La Trobe University Professor Jacinta Douglas examines how young people with disability end up in aged care, and how we can change these people’s lives for the better.


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