The more people visit a nursing home, the more likely they are to think life there is lonely and unhappy.
Lonely, unhappy, powerless – that’s how nearly all Australians see life in an aged care facility, a survey of 10,500 people ordered by the Royal Commission on Aged Care Quality and Safety has reported.
Loneliness and a desire to continue living at home are main themes highlighted by the survey by Roy Morgan, said to be the largest of its kind in the world, and focus groups conducted by Ipsos on attitudes to ageing and aged care to be released on Monday.They confirmed Australia’s aged care system needed major reform to align with community expectations, said commissioners Tony Pagone QC and Lynelle Briggs AO.own homes for as long as possible,” they said.
A word cloud summing up the perceptions of older people as frail, vulnerable and wise found in focus group studies by Ipsos. Most people knew little about the aged care system, the research found. The commissioners said this could explain why governments had "neglected to fix major and obvious problems" and how the recommendations of 20 government inquiries had been ignored."We know there are significant numbers of people who never receive a visitor," he said. Many people didn't like to visit because they "couldn't deal with it".
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