Aged care in the home improves lives and saves money. So why are Australians being made to wait?
by Stephanie Convery Inequality reporter from World news | The Guardian on (#6Q3T0)
If you ignore people at a point where they really need some of that earlier intervention ... then you're up for a higher cost', says expert
Twenty years ago, Patrick Evans beat cancer. Now aged 76, the repercussions of the radiation treatment that helped him are setting in.
He has very serious aspiration and that causes him pneumonia and that lands him in hospital on a regular basis," his wife, Inda, said. He had a very bad episode last year and was basically in a life or death situation."
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