5 years ago
120,000 OLDER AUSTRALIANS STILL WAITING FOR HOME CARE
Julie Collins MP
The latest release of the Morrison Government’s home care packages waitlist has revealed 120,000 older Australians are still languishing waiting for care.
It is shameful that in a wealthy country like Australia so many older vulnerable people can’t get the care they need.
Yesterday Scott Morrison called the funding of more home care packages a ‘priority’ but with 120,000 older Australians waiting for this care, why won’t he act now?
The distressing number of older Australians waiting for care underscores the failure of Scott Morrison’s response to this ongoing crisis.
There are still more older Australians waiting for home care packages than there are home care packages being used.
Under the Liberal Government the waitlist for home care has grown from 88,000 to 120,000 older Australians.
Labor has been calling for action on reducing the waitlist since the first release of data revealed too many older Australians were waiting for care.
While these new figures come after the Government brought forward the release of new packages from the forward estimates, more needs to be done.
The Liberals have been asleep at the wheel for six years, with four Ministers and billions ripped out while Australia’s aged care system has lurched from one crisis to another.
The Prime Minister is happy to take responsibility for calling the Royal Commission into aged care, but he refuses to acknowledge that it was his aged care cuts and the Liberals’ inaction that led to it.
Scott Morrison and the Government must do better to ensure older Australians get the quality aged care services they deserve now – older Australians and their loved ones can’t afford to wait any longer.
It is shameful that in a wealthy country like Australia so many older vulnerable people can’t get the care they need.
Yesterday Scott Morrison called the funding of more home care packages a ‘priority’ but with 120,000 older Australians waiting for this care, why won’t he act now?
The distressing number of older Australians waiting for care underscores the failure of Scott Morrison’s response to this ongoing crisis.
There are still more older Australians waiting for home care packages than there are home care packages being used.
Under the Liberal Government the waitlist for home care has grown from 88,000 to 120,000 older Australians.
Labor has been calling for action on reducing the waitlist since the first release of data revealed too many older Australians were waiting for care.
While these new figures come after the Government brought forward the release of new packages from the forward estimates, more needs to be done.
The Liberals have been asleep at the wheel for six years, with four Ministers and billions ripped out while Australia’s aged care system has lurched from one crisis to another.
The Prime Minister is happy to take responsibility for calling the Royal Commission into aged care, but he refuses to acknowledge that it was his aged care cuts and the Liberals’ inaction that led to it.
Scott Morrison and the Government must do better to ensure older Australians get the quality aged care services they deserve now – older Australians and their loved ones can’t afford to wait any longer.