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.
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.
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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