ACT aged care accomodation needs urgent attention

Elderly ACT residents and their families are being neglected by Federal Government policy on aged care accommodation.

Federal Labor ACT Representatives Senator Kate Lundy, Bob McMullan MP and Annette Ellis MP pointed to the ACT’s unacceptably low Residential Aged Care Provision ratio.

“The ACT has the lowest ratio of all the states and territories,” Senator Lundy observed. “Our ratio is 72.1 beds per 1000 people aged 70 years or older, which falls short of the national average of 85.6, and far below the Federal Government’s own target ratio of 88.”