Is low mental health treatment of aged care residents a result Medicare exemption?
Just think of the following figures. At present, (June 2015 figures) around 173,000 older Australians live in residential aged-care homes. Of these people, about 30,000 have symptoms of some form of mental illness, from anxiety or depression, and another 86,000 have some form of dementia. That’s a lot of people in residential aged care! One[…]