Frances Matthews
This year, I made submissions to the health select committee about dementia care and aged residential care in this country. Care for cognitively impaired adults is unsafe, unsatisfactory and is now unsustainable. Why else would health select committees be looking at it?
As an older person, a doctor and medicolegal advisor, I have a special interest in the human rights of older people. Over the years, I’ve developed the view that, despite many good intentions, we’ve turned older adults in need of care into commodities, bearers of assets to be stripped, not bearers of rights to be respected.