Stop The Pipeline Of Young People Into Aged Care

Source: HelloCare  |  Reporter: Caroline Egan

There is a “pipeline” of young people moving from hospital to residential aged care, and often other options are not even considered, the royal commission has heard.

Every week in Australia, on average 42 younger people enter residential aged care, the equivalent of six per day or 2,000 every year. Most are sent to aged care after being discharged from hospital.

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Source: Government News  |  Reporter: Judy Skatssoon  |  Photo: Kelly Barnes

A health department bureaucrat has been asked by a royal commissioner to explain whether the 6000 young Australians with disability who are currently in aged care facilities have been ignored and forgotten by government policy.

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Source: 9 News  |  Reporter: Megan Neil

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Source: The Australian  |  Reporter: Stephen Lunn  |  Photo: David Crosling

Appearing at the Aged Care Royal Commission on Wednesday, Dr Gauntlett said the Morrison government’s goal of merely halving the number of younger people entering aged care by 2025 revealed a “misallocation of ­resources”.

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Source: 7 News  | Reporter: Megan Neil | Photo: AAP

On the first night of James Nutt’s “sentence” in an aged care facility, the 21-year-old dropped his head in his hands and cried.

“I thought to myself: ‘I’m 21, I’ve got maybe 65 years left in my life and I’m forced to live here for the rest of it with no ability of ever getting out.’

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Source: The West Australian  | Reporter: Megan Neil | Photo: AAP

James Nutt, 35, views his years in a nursing home as a “sentence”.

A number of younger people who are living, or have lived, in residential aged care will tell the royal commission about their experiences during a hearing in Melbourne next week.

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Source: Aged Care Guide  |  Reporter: Liz Alderslade

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Source: Lakes Mail  |  Photo: David Crosling

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Source: The Courier  |  Reporter: Megan Neil  |  Photo: AAP

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Source: The Age

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Source: Bendigo Advertiser  |  Reporter: Tom O’Callaghan  |  Photo: Shutterstock

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Source: ABC News  |  Reporter: James Oaten  |  Photo: Kelly Barnes

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.

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Source: Starts at 60  |  Reporter: Jocelyn Nickels  |  Photo: Getty

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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.”

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Source: 9 News  |  Reporter: Megan Neil  |  Photo: AAP

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Source: SBS News  | Reporter: Jennifer Scherer | Photo: SBS News

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