20 Years After Burdekin: Mental Health a 'Circuit Breaker' for Closing the …

20 years after Burdekin: mental health a 'circuit breaker' for closing the …
In the 1990?s Indigenous people were still being removed from remote communities for treatment in town, which was frequently destructive to their mental health – particularly for elderly people. Much anti-social and self destructive behaviour …
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Neglected elderly Australian endures brutal end
Australia, where Cynthia Thoresen lived, is a developed, wealthy nation considered progressive in its treatment of seniors. But even in …. Dianne Pendergast spent five years as Queensland's Adult Guardian investigating hundreds of allegations of abuse.
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