https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/12/australia-housing-crisis-buying-homes-rental-market-survey

Those people will not be "staying in their home" when they get old and require care. They will need publicly funded age care places because they will have no equity with which to buy a place in a facility.

How is the government going to provide for this under the current system of private providers of factory-farm age care?

#auspol #agecare

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-01/retirement-villages-fees-contracts-trapping-older-australians/104402290?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

My worry here is that there are, albeit a very, very few, who can understand these contracts even vaguely

Give this job to the lawyers at Apple or Google and these oldies can be compelled to extract their teeth and fingernails before being kicked up the arse

#auspol
#agecare
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/05/the-ill-treatment-of-my-friends-90-year-old-mother-shows-how-broken-our-aged-care-system-is

The whole age care system in Australia is a hangover of the neo-liberal fixation with markets and small-government. It is intended to make profits for providers and reduce the size of the government budget.

The only real solution is to bring THE WHOLE OF IT back into government hands and to fund it appropriately.

#auspol
#agecare

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/18041/2sn678o5

I strongly suspect that the end point of the current approach to aged care funding is that your superannuation balance (regardless of how big or small) will be required to be transferred to the aged care operator when you access residential care.

After all, they have long hammered the point that "Super is to be spent on retirement living"

#auspol
#agecare

So, my mother-in-law needs to access gardening services under her age care package. Unfortunately there are NO providers listed in her area.
So, what's the point of her package you might ask?

#agecare
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Anyone know of tips on cutting very thick short hair on a bedridden person whose head is always on a pillow? #neisvoid #disability #agecare #hair #haircut

My gran has hair going every direction from always being on a pillow. I can cut all of it off but it would be nice if I could leave her with a bit that looked okay.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/07/labor-opens-door-to-more-aged-care-self-funding-as-minister-declares-baby-boomers-are-coming

So, will this pay for something other than "Battery Hen" approaches to residential aged care?

And, if we have a universal health care system, why don't we have a universal aged care system? or a universal dental care system, for that matter?
#auspol
#agecare