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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Forced into exile: the traumatising impact of rural aged care service inaccessibility

The shortage of residential aged care places is especially acute in rural areas and this results in many older people who live in these areas being forced to leave their home communities to access care in distant communities. This article reports on one aspect of a larger study that explored family and caring community members’ experiences when someone they cared for needed to access residential aged care away from their rural communities.

This article written in the international electronic journal, Rural and Remote Health, is available free online

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