The current aged care system here in Australia is a disgrace, an absolute disgrace. Unless you have a great deal of money and can afford one of the expensive top of the range aged care homes ( you know, the ones all our aged Politicians will end up in) they are nothing more than warehouses for the dying. There is no standard of living what so ever. The Government has allowed aged care to become a business, just like our healthcare. Anything that becomes a business is only concerned with the bottom line and not the welfare of its customers. Why can't our politicians see that?
Our governments have allowed this to happen ALP and LNP they are both to blame. Aged care has always been put into the "too hard basket". We have a huge wage bill for Australia's top public servants and politicians, the perks and the disgusting waste of the public purse has to stop and it must stop now.
Why it would take a Royal Commission 2 years to find the problems within the healthcare system is beyond me. You only have to walk into any old peoples home and take a deep breath and open your eyes for 2 minutes to experience the urine stench and the white gaunt faces of the aged so doped up to keep them docile and easy to manage. It is a heartbreaking sight. There is no fresh air, the food sucks and despite many hard working angels trying their best, there are only so many dirty bottoms you can wipe for a minimum wage before it takes it's toll on your ......what's the phrase you snowflakes like to use? Oh yes MENTAL HEALTH!!!!!
There was no need for an investigation, just a Leader with enough moral courage to admit the disgusting injustice of it all.
If we cannot afford to take care of our aged population then at least make Euthanasia legal. I, like many others looking at their twilight years with fear would rather take a pill than end up in one of these abominations they call aged care homes!
