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Who are 'young people in nursing homes'?
‘Young people in nursing homes’ are people under the age of 65 living in, or at risk of entry into, aged care facilities.
These young people have an acquired disability with complex support needs that often bridge the aged care, disability, health, housing and community services sectors.
Characterised by disabilities acquired largely as a result of catastrophic injury or through progressive neurological diseases, these young people require service responses from not one arm of the service system, but multiple, including health, disability and sometimes aged care, amongst others.
Having an able bodied life before the acquisition of a lifelong injury or illness means our members have different expectations concerning service responses to those living with a congenital disability. They expect to access the rehabilitation needed to restore health and independence; and to live in the community as other able bodied young people do.
Approximately 6500 young Australians with disability presently occupy a not insignificant 5% of residential aged care beds.