The Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has admitted to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety that the Younger People in Residential Aged Care (YPIRAC) initiative will not capture people who aren’t eligible for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
MEMBER for Shortland Pat Conroy has today in parliament cited the experiences of local constituents in highlighting problems in aged and home care.
Young people with disabilities and chronic illnesses are being punished by being put into aged care facilities, a royal commission has been told.
Royal commission will focus on “young” patients in aged care facilities.
NEALE Radley has nicknamed his nursing home room “cell 14” because it has a door handle which he cannot use.
“I feel like a prisoner,” he told the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety as he shared his experiences on Tuesday.
Young people are being forced into residential aged care and forgotten due to a “gaping hole” in health care checks and balances, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Safety and Quality has heard.
View onlineHarrowing testimony … as the Aged Care Royal Commission turned its attention to younger people with disabilities.
The commissioner overseeing the Aged Care Royal Commission has described the number of young people in aged care as a national embarrassment at best, and a national disgrace at worst.
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.
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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