David Pocock (ACT, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors, Senator McAllister. Minister, I've been approached by a family in Canberra who are desperately seeking a place in residential care for their father. He's in his 80s and is living with dementia. His wife, also in her 80s, is struggling to care for him. She herself is living with MS and is no longer strong enough to help him dress or shower. They have now approached every single aged-care facility here in the ACT and they've all turned this man down—every single one. He was briefly given a place, but after one night was asked to move out. His dementia is apparently too troublesome for aged-care facilities. Minister, what can be done for this family or any family in this situation?