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| Subject: OZschwitz politics, not policy, is dictating how older serfs live out their lives Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:21 pm | |
| ONE of the clearest and most abiding messages governments and the providers of aged care have received from older Australians is their desire to see out their days in fitting accommodation in the communities in which they live. The message is explicitly recognised in the Gillard government's own Living Longer, Living Better strategy for older Australians.
But the government's newly announced position on aged-care accommodation bonds poses a direct threat to this very reasonable aspiration for the ever-expanding cohort of Australians hitting their 70s, 80s and 90s. And despite being promoted by Ageing Minister Mark Butler as ''driving strong investment and renewal'' in aged care, the proposal will have the opposite effect on a sector in which the construction of new accommodation, both retirement villages and aged care, is rapidly falling hopelessly behind future demand.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/politics-not-policy-is-dictating-how-older-australians-live-out-their-lives-20121226-2bwbg.html#ixzz2GD9FXbrc
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