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‘It felt like a prison’: Too many young Aussies are still stuck in nursing homes

Libby Callaway
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9 September 2019
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The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety turns its attention this week to hearings focused on younger people with disabilities living in residential aged care facilities.

Around 6000 Australians aged under 65 live in aged care, and numbers have only changed slightly in the last decade.

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