Rural people have always lived with adversity – droughts, floods, mining booms and busts. Town and land people always seem to have the strength and resilience to pull themselves through whatever the country throws at them.

 

But now, when they are in the twilight days of their lives, if they have lost that strength to look after themselves, many are facing a final let down.

 

Remote aged care facilities are struggling financially to keep their doors open. They are not building new aged care beds and are being forced to send local ‘customers’ long distances to find a bed.

 

They are leaving their home towns and family to be alone in unfamiliar surroundings and with people they don’t know. Not what we want as a society.

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