‘Geographic narcissism’: the battle to fund aged care providers in rural Australia

‘We are trying to cater for our ageing population with little or no support’: Ross Cardillo, the chairman of Mareeba and Communities Family Healthcare. Photograph: Brian Cassey/The Guardian

In the final stages of Angiolina Moro’s dementia, she would revert to speaking Italian.

“She was in her late 20s when she arrived in Australia,” her son, Joe Moro, says. “So as her dementia creeped in, she lost the capacity to speak in English.”