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Sabrina Lenzen, Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics, The University of Queensland

Australians wait 12 months for aged care – and the latest budget funding is unlikely to change that

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Imagine your elderly mother needs help to get out of bed, shower and manage her medications – and then waiting more than a year for that support to arrive.

According to a federal government report released this week, that is no longer a worst-case scenario. It is now the national average.

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