Nursing home residents are paying $800 a week for services they are barely getting

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Juniper Chrystal Halliday Residential Aged Care

Nursing home residents confined to their rooms during COVID are like hypothetical tenants locked in their bedrooms by landlords – unable to take showers, able only to make only sandwiches for meals and cut off from visitors and socialising with fellow residents.

If it happened to tenants they...

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