00:00Across Australia, thousands of older people are being left stranded in public hospitals.
00:06After going into hospital due to falls or illnesses, many older people are unable to
00:11return home as they don't have appropriate care. But with no aged care beds available,
00:17they get stuck. One of these people is Lynette Bishop. The 84-year-old who has dementia became
00:25literally homeless in Wollongong Hospital. She was deemed unfit to return home and had to give
00:31up her public housing unit. Some people wait so many months in hospital that they have died
00:37before getting a spot in a nursing home. On any given day in the Illawarra where there is a shortage
00:43of 1000 aged care beds, between 100 and 150 people are in public hospitals unable to be discharged
00:50because they don't have appropriate care or a place to go.
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