With one in five hospital patients waiting for discharge to aged care and a rapidly ageing population, NSW’s Illawarra region desperately requires new beds – yet operators say there is no ROI on building beds and they are turning their focus to retirement living. Across the country, thousands of older Australians remain stranded in hospital beds because there’s nowhere else for them to go. ...
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SATURDAY Issue 109
Illawarra worst in the country for bed block – but no ROI to build aged care beds

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