When Anglican Care closes facility in Bulahdelah, some will have to travel over 75km to Taree to visit their partner
The closure of the Bulahdelah’s Cedar Wharf Lodge will see elderly couples torn apart, unable to visit each other as limited transport options hinder travel to the New South Wales Hunter region aged care home.
“Once she says goodbye to him, it’s goodbye. She can’t get to see him; there are no buses, no taxis, Ubers here. She’s basically lost her husband while he is alive.”Cedar Wharf Lodge is one of two facilities which Anglican Care has this week announced will be closing in the Hunter region. It is the latest in a slew of closures of aged care homes in regional NSW including Southern Cross Care NSW and ACT’s facilities at Bombala and Swansea last month.
Sadler said this reflected the underfunding of the aged care system as a whole, uncovered by the royal commission into aged care. He said regional aged care facilities had been particularly affected.
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