NACCHO lodged a submission to the Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee Inquiry in September 2019.
Older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are being let down by the aged care system. They are significantly underrepresented in residential aged care services, at under one per cent, and their uptake of dementia services is very poor. Yet older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experience at least 2.3 times the burden of disease as other Australians and are also 3-5 times more likely to experience dementia.i It is a sad indictment of the system that the care needs of our ageing First Peoples are not being met.
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