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Health
By the Specialist Reporting Team's Penny Timms and Katherine Gregory, and social affairs correspondent Norman Hermant

Australia is now living with COVID-19, but in aged care, thousands are dying with it

They're known as the Silent Generation: Australia's elders often have a reputation for copping hard knocks on the chin without complaint – but they’re also among our most vulnerable.

It's because of that vulnerability many of their lives have been slower to return to a pre-COVID 'normal'. 

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