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Nursing home residents are paying $800 a week for services they are barely getting

  • Written by Anna Howe, Honorary Professor, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Macquarie University
Nursing home residents are paying $800 a week for services they are barely gettingJuniper Chrystal Halliday Residential Aged Care

Nursing home residents confined to their rooms during COVID are like hypothetical tenants locked in their bedrooms by landlords – unable to take showers, able only to make only sandwiches for meals and cut off from visitors and socialising with fellow residents.

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