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Awareness of Aged Care Reforms

30 Apr 2012

Q. The Federal Government recently announced changes to aged care which included extra funding, better access to aged care services, capping costs of aged care accommodation and in-home care and means testing aged care accommodation costs. How much have you read or heard about those aged care changes?

 

Total

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

A lot

7%

11%

7%

4%

Some

26%

31%

26%

26%

A little

32%

28%

35%

32%

Nothing

30%

25%

28%

37%

Don’t know

5%

4%

5%

1%

Just 7% of respondents claim to have read or heard ‘a lot’ about the recent Federal Government changes to aged care. A further 26% have read or heard ‘some’.

32% of respondents have read or heard ‘a little’ while 30% have read or heard ‘nothing’.

Labor voters were more likely to have read or heard ‘a lot’ (11%) or ‘some’ (31%).

There were no significant differences based on gender.

Older respondents were more likely to state that they had read or heard ‘some’ about the aged care changes (33% of those aged 55-64 and 39% of those aged 65+).

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