While adjusting to life with a disability after an accident is a common experience, advocates say Australians who acquire a disability later in life are hampered by a rule barring over 65s joining the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Featured: Peter Wilcox, lives with polio Ross Joyce, CEO of the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations Dr Bronwyn Morkham, … Continued
The Summer Foundation submission on the exposure draft of the Bill for the new Aged Care Act.
The question of whether there should be an age limit to joining the National Disability Scheme (NDIS) has been debated since its inception a decade ago. It is being asked again as we wait for the NDIS Review to release its final report. The report is expected to explore eligibility, sustainability and how costs should … Continued
Torrens University free online Challenging Ageism short course is designed to give you the knowledge and confidence you need to recognise and challenge ageism wherever you see it.
Key points:
– Disability support workers are leaving the sector for aged care.
– The 15 per cent pay rise for aged care workers is a big driving factor, advocates report.
– New disability workforce data shows there is insufficient capacity to meet future growth demands.
Australians aged over 65 years who live with disability are unable to apply for the NDIS.
“They made the restriction not whether you had your disability before the age of 65, but what age you were when you applied,” Mr Freckleton said. “There are various forms of equipment and so on that you need, but once you have those … you can carry on living quite well and contributing, but to deprive people of that just randomly because of their birthday is what I call a calendar crime.”
Infantilization is often a form of ableism. This behavior is offensive because it underestimates a person’s cognitive abilities and implies that people with disabilities are invisible, don’t matter, or don’t have anything meaningful to communicate.
The toolkit equips you with the skills, information and resources you need to speak up for better aged care. Self-advocacy or speaking up means having the right information to get the care and support you need. Topics include your aged care rights and options, protecting yourself from harm, -help with decision making and solving aged care problems. the toolkit is available online or as a hardcopy booklet.
A newly released report shows the Government is still short of its target to have no one younger than 45 living in nursing homes, and no one younger than 65 entering aged care homes, by 2022.
This landmark report is the first definitive public annual report which captures the experiences of older people engaging with the aged care system. Commonly presented issues include unwanted admissions to residential care, increased risk of abuse facilitated by COVID-19 restrictions, a lack of available assessment services and long wait times for support.
The Australian Human Rights Commission will decide on the validity of a law which discriminates against over 65s seeking support from the NDIS. The National Disability Insurance Scheme is not available to Australians who were older than 65 years old when the scheme was introduced, or who need disability support after they turn 65.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has accepted a discrimination complaint against the National Disability Insurance Agency, challenging the age limit that restricts funding for service to those aged under 65.
This session was part of the Lunchtime Learnings webinar series, supporting service providers about how to support, and respond better to older people experiencing elder abuse. The sessions aim to improve capacity across the sector by delivering topic based information sessions with topic expert guests.
In Victoria, where the NDIS was rolled out from 2016, anyone born after 1952 was eligible for the scheme, whereas someone with the same disability born before 1952 was not.