720 ABC Radio broadcast an excellent segment on going inside WA’s aged care system.
Particularly impressive was the articulate Peggy Holroyd, who at 88 was a great advocate for maintaining independence in your own home with outside help.
While she feared the institutionalisation of residential aged care, the audience heard from 94-year-old Mrs Mountain who entered a nursing home ‘of my own volition’ and found it ‘extremely good, a second home from home’.
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READ NOWAlso contributing to the program were representatives of carers, who strike up relationships with those they’re looking after.
Hats off to them and, if you didn’t hear the broadcast, I recommend you visit the ABC online where the program is available for download.