{"id":848038,"date":"2026-08-08T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848038\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:00:09","slug":"it-was-a-nightmare-families-speak-out-as-aged-care-crisis-hits-boiling-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848038\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was a nightmare\u2019: Families speak out as aged care crisis hits boiling point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heartbroken families <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/australia-news\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">across the country<\/a> are standing up to demand change as Australia\u2019s home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/australia-news\/a-current-affair\/the-frightening-numbers-that-led-to-a-senate-inquiry-20260801-p60kl4.html\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aged care crisis<\/a> reaches boiling point.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands have rallied behind the Families for Aged Care Equity and Support (FACES) campaign, sharing devastating stories of elderly loved ones left behind &#8211; and often dying &#8211; while waiting for approved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/government-26m4\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">government care<\/a> packages.<\/p>\n<p>And with Australia\u2019s population rapidly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/aged-care-5zx\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ageing<\/a>, advocates warn the crisis will worsen without immediate reform.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story in the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heartbroken families across the country are standing up to demand change as Australia\u2019s home aged care crisis reaches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-848038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}