Aged Care with Home Care Packages

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I’ve been greatly underwhelmed by two recent articles making a glamorous look out of caring for elderly family at home. This report is more accurate per my experience.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-...grade/12622558

While it is tangential, even intersecting to the CV thread, I felt it fairer not to try interrupting the general tendencies of dialogue flow there.

It comes, coincidentally, on the back of a recent story about an elderly woman seemingly abandoned at a public hospital with no ID. The disturbing takeaway from that article was this:

The head of Aged and Disability Advocacy Australia chief Geoff Rowe said while hospital abandonments were rare, it was not unusual for older Australians to be put into a respite care centre and never picked up.

He said it was important that anyone caring for an elderly person asked for help when they needed it.

"It's really important that people in a caring role reach out and seek support," he said.

I don’t dispute that one bit, but the first article outlines realistically how responding to the moral and physical challenges as a carer, actually removes much of the opportunity to balance the books in terms of advocating the carer’s welfare in concert with meeting the recipient’s needs.

It’s easy to see how an institution can suddenly become the chosen option, especially if not all family members are on the same page in terms of home care.