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For people aged 65 and over, the majority (93%) lived in private dwellings. The likelihood of a person living in an institutionalised setting increased with age; of those 85 and over, 34% lived in nursing homes and retirement and aged care accommodation. Source: (2003: ABS)
But I’m jumping ahead. Let me tell you how this all came about: My mum wanted to stay at home, after dad was no longer around, and I let her down, because I didn’t know how to find help for her.
I was too busy with my own work, my own life, my husband, my kids to take the time it needed. Can you identify with a busy life like this?
My name is Amanda … and after my experiences with my mum, I started working as a nurse in Aged Care. I now advise people about this on a phone information line!
I speak to people every day who are discovering that there is a lot more to keeping their parents at home than they had considered.
It’s not just falls.. Now its solutions for incontinence (wet beds) eating and drinking problems walking frames memory problems and the list seems endless. And overwhelming.
Imagine your parents in their own home – until they died peacefully at home. What would that mean to you, and to them?
It would have meant the world to my mum! And to me. This information will give you YOUR BEST CHANCE of achieving that goal.
If you are like everyone else, you don’t mind so much for yourself, but every time you have to let your parents down, it hurts even more.
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