Aged Care Royal Commission – Younger residents testify
Source: The Project
Harrowing testimony … as the Aged Care Royal Commission turned its attention to younger people with disabilities.
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- 10 September 2019
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Those stuck in the system continue to share their stories
Source: SBS News | Reporter: Rachel Cary
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.
‘My nightmare’: Wife reveals late husband’s harrowing aged care experience aged 56
Source: Starts at 60 | Reporter: Jocelyn Nickels | Photo: Getty
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.
‘Every day I felt like killing myself’: the young in aged care speak at the royal commission
Source: Aged Care Insite | Reporter: Conor Burke
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.”
View onlineROYAL COMMISSION: Aged care isn’t appropriate for young people with disability
Source: Aged Care Guide | Reporter: Liz Alderslade
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.
View online‘It felt like a prison’: Young people in aged care facilities
Source: News GP | Reporter: Libby Callaway & Sue Sloan
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).
View onlineThe Aged Care Royal Commission is an opportunity to permanently eliminate the need for young people to enter residential aged care
Source: Probono Australia | Reporter: Luke Bo’sher
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.
View online“My Number One Goal Is To Get The F*#@ Out Of The Nursing Home”
Source: HelloCare | Reporter: Caroline Egan
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.
View onlineYoung in aged care a ‘national disgrace’
Source: 7 News | Reporter: Megan Neil
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.
View onlineAged care system dubbed a ‘national disgrace’ in royal commission inquest
Source: Sky News | Reporter: Andrea Crothers
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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