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Can’t find an aged care bed? This is why – Australia is adding just 1,500 beds a year to ‘sandbag’ its future

Is this the next aged care crisis? With 24,000 ‘phantom’ beds across the system, the real occupancy rate in residential care is closer to 95% – and demand is set to dramatically outstrip supply over the next few years. With 20% of Australia’s aged care beds located in shared rooms that are mostly operating as singles or lying empty, the residential care system is close to capacity – goo...

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