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The budget must address aged care — here are 3 key priorities
Australia’s aged care system has produced a litany of failures: unpalatable food, poor care, neglect, abuse and, most recently, the tragedies of the pandemic.
This should not come as a surprise. Poor regulation has taken the “nursing” out of “nursing homes” and allowed care funding to leach into provider profits.
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Older Australians have been pushed out of sight and out of mind…