Source: Aged Care Insite | Reporter: Conor Burke
Corcoran, 43, has good reason to be frustrated as she is one of the 6048 people aged under 65 living in permanent aged care.
She describes her six-year stay in aged care as a “nightmare” and says: “Up until recently, every day I felt like killing myself. I can’t move, so I can’t do this – I would have if I could.”
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