Cry 'wolf' often enough a new nobody takes any notice.

The West is suffering a schizophrenic psychosis.

It's not a crisis, it's a catastrophe of biblical proportions. And almost everywhere you look in the AGED CARE "INDUSTRY"! I remember a scene played out in a geriatric ward of a large regional hospital where an old digger who'd spent four years in hell in Changi prison came home to his bride and settled down as the towns pathologist. He owned a nice old house near the centre of town.

Unfortunately, the travails suffered at the hands of the Japanese guard rendered him infertile and so when his late wife predeceased him she did so childless. William Riddle was a thoroughly nice man who was sent to a distant nursing home cause he lived alone and had fallen, the consequence of a stroke.

He recovered remarkably well and wanted to go home I met him in his eighties when his still active mind was as sharp as a tack. And was astonished when a young resident stood over him and ordered him to be taken from that place and sent to a "NICE IF DISTANT NURSING HOME, FAR FROM FAMILY AND FRIENDS". IT'S GOT A NICE DUCK POND SAID HIS NIECE, who had an enduring power of attorney and an Asian husband with cash register eyes. And no connection with our military history or the heroic doctors like Bill, who stood between their captors and men too sick to work.

When Bill received Herr Himmler's ultimatum, he said, I won't go. I want to go home! Which should have been his choice!

This was the last time I saw this lovely old gentle man. One of the nurses, the younger of two on duty in our ward, kept saying, this isn't right, just isn't right and the waiting ambo's received a call directing them to another emergency.

Even so, young Herr Himmler kept insisting that Bill had to go to the NH. Because he told bill, you fell and might fall again. And a story repeated over and over the length and breadth of this wide brown land that could be prevented with more respite care.
TBC Alan B

An ivy league study found that it cost half to keep older folk in their own homes rather than INCARCERATE them in the cruel and unusual solitary confinement, that all too often is their lot when they're abandoned in NH's by too busy relatives.

I don't blame them, given I cared for an aging parent, who never spent a single day, INCARCERATED in a nursing home. [However, Not for all relatives.]

The in your own home funding model is the template we need for aged care and need to be in the nature of an endowment, providers compete for, as opposed to directly funding this or that provider on the basis of cooked books.

Moreover, we need doctors who sign off on medication, to have seen the patient and their test results.

If medicine for this or that psychosis is to be administered? It must be inside a hospital ward dedicated to the psychotic.

And patients with dementia need to be treated in separate establishments.least they harm other patients or unprotected staff.

Some of these folk are unusually strong and need special handling and pacifiers. Yes, dear/cobber, I understand dear/buddy, she'll be along in just a couple of minutes love/mate/gramps and so on and so forth.

Wherever problem patients can be handled with kindness and compassion, that's the only approach needed. And we should have minimum staffing levels in institutions that ought to be places of last resort care. Given these folk are sent there to die!

It has to be a last port of call and not a place to send hospital patients because we've overloaded an underfunded public health system. Enough already, with the prevarication. Don't just do something, stand there!
Alan B.

Wherever problem patients can be handled with kindness and compassion, that's the only approach needed
Alan B,
Wouldn't that need at least an oz of a sense of caring ? Are these terms still in the Dictionaty ?
I wonder if the school teachers are aware of these words. I know for a fact that bureaucrats are not familiar with them.

In the palliative care industry their motto is 'Just die already'.
This is what happens when leftists deliberately implode the system for a socialist agenda.

- Actually I have more to add to my previous comment.

When Doctors say "You've got 4 months to live".
When Doctors give a patient with cancer a 30% chance of living with Chemo and Radiation Therapy that will likely kill them anyway and the patient says "No", in order to die with dinity;
When the health department just simply closes their case file saying 'Patient Refused Treatment' and rolls back pain and sickness medication;
When the patient requests CBD, and is told "It's in the works but won't be available for a few months yet";
Patient's like, "I'll be dead by then".
When a $7000 treatment of CBD could save someone's life and the government drags their feet.
When the government happily pays $42,000 a script to cure a hopeless junkie of Hepatitus C, (and not their drug addiction or mental problems) so that the junkie can go back out stick another needle up their arm and try to catch the Hepatitus C back again.

'We cant afford to look after everyone, not with all the refugees with their 8 - 10 kids; and all the junkies who take priority.'

- 'Just die already.'

Stupid backwards country.