Why older Australians with MND are considering early euthanasia
By Samantha Dick

The death of AFL legend Neale Daniher has shone a light on the grim choices faced by older Australians fighting motor neurone disease.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-14/aged-care-system-failing-australians-with-motor-neurone-disease/106776088

#MotorNeuronedisease #PeopleWithDisability #DisabilityAccess #AgedCare #Government #SamanthaDick

RE: https://theblower.au/@HardBeingGreen/116731064428861549

Please do tell us @HardBeingGreen + David Pocock, how does AI create value?
How does AI create value in cutting people off #agedcare + #NDIS ?

If datacenters are so great, why are they being built in secret?
https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/p/if-data-centers-are-so-great-why

#datacentres #DavidPocock #NoAi #AusPol

Grandfather's fall inspires 20yo student's smart clock invention
By Jessica Ross

Kai Gould has created a device to connect older people living independently with their loved ones.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-11/grandfather-fall-inspires-smart-clock-invention/106777148

#Inventions #ComputerScience #AgedCare #Engineering #Aging #AgingPopulation #JessicaRoss

It costs millions per day for healthy people to lie in hospital beds
By Emily Anderson

As many medically well patients wait in public hospitals for a spot in aged care, their bodies begin to deteriorate at a rate experts believe is preventable.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-09/bed-block-hospital-patients-wait-for-aged-care/106748902

#AgedCare #OlderPeople #Health #HealthcareFacilities #EmilyAnderson

Thinking back to the Royal Commission into #AgedCare in #Australia.

And how the Commisioner who saw the system as needing a fundamental re-do died only part way into the inquiry.

And how the final Commissioners referred precisely no-one for criminal investigation.

Just like the #RoboDebt Royal Commission.

And how the system is still the #AgedCareCrisis.

And the decades of failures by state governments to prosecute crimes in nursing homes never gets addressed.
#AusPol
https://toot.community/@sister_ratched/116682687619078114

Western Australia is facing a severe shortage of aged care beds, with a projected need for 2,700 more by 2030. Current facilities are operating at 96.5% capacity. Contributing factors include high construction costs and workforce shortages, raising significant concerns for the future of aged care in the region. #agedcare #health

https://wesearch.press/s/why-its-about-to-get-so-much-harder-to-find-an-aged-care-bed-7e86f5c6?utm_source=social&utm_medium=auto&utm_campaign=mastodon

Thanks Trish Roberts
@treleanor

Cartoon, 22/5/2026 David Pope

#AUKUS #auspol #agedcare #NDIS

AGING IN PLACE
Background, many aged people creeping towards the government’s #MyAgedCare building.
In front of them a Collins class submarine, also aged, bending over and using a walker.
On top a naval person is saying
“JOIN THE WAITING LIST “??
In front of him, the defence minister saying to the people:
I DON’T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND THE NATIONAL DEFENCE PROCUREMENT RISIBILITY INSURANCE SCHEME!