00:02At 93, George Dalton is stranded in hospital.
00:06His family unable to find him a place in any aged care home in Adelaide.
00:11He hasn't been outside of the hospital tiny little room for four months.
00:16The state government marking a grim milestone,
00:20saying there are now 500 South Australians who, like Mr Dalton,
00:25are living in hospitals waiting for an aged care bed.
00:28A list that's expected to grow.
00:31Unless the federal government does something as the responsible level of government
00:36to bring more beds online urgently.
00:39The additional hospital patients adding pressure to the health system.
00:43The opposition raising the ongoing concerns of doctors at Modbury Hospital
00:48about understaffing in the emergency department.
00:51A safe work investigation found conditions did not breach safety rules.
00:56Did Blair Boy seriously think that South Australians weren't going to get old
01:00when he promised to fix ramping four and a half years ago?
01:04I don't think Australians are going to be very patient with state governments
01:08who blame every single problem that exists in our hospital system on aged care.
01:14That is simply an overstatement of the issue.
01:16This new facility in Adelaide's West expected to provide a place for 120 residents.
01:22But we need more facilities like this built.
01:25We're trying to make sure we have the right settings in place to support that investment.
01:28But it's not happening as quickly as I'd like.
01:31And with the cohort of Australians born after the Second World War now in their 80s,
01:36Federal Government data shows a new facility would have to be opened every few days for 20 years
01:42to keep up with the forecast demand.
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