The survey by National Seniors of 4,562 older Australians found that:
- Australian seniors are passionate about older people being involved at all levels of aged care system reform.
- Seniors currently feel that opportunities for them to be involved as co-designers of age care are minimal.
- Seniors are wary of tokenistic gestures of engagement such as consultation processes that invite contributions but do not act on them.
- Seniors are not just aged care recipients – many have valuable experience and expertise they can contribute in making changes to the aged care system.
National Seniors CEO and Director of Research,
Professor John McCallum says the response highlights the risk of inherent
ageism if it’s left to just bureaucrats alone to redesign aged care.
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