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'Governments of the past 15 years have ignored the evidence and neglected the aged care sector. We are now at a point where over half of all aged care facilities are making a loss.'
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Aged residential care providers are losing up to $15 per resident per day, but Age Concern isn’t convinced that more government funding is the only solution to the aged care crisis