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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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