Time to stop ignoring the health of older New Zealanders

The 2022 Budget and health reforms are conspicuously silent on older people and the aged care sector, Newsroom reports. Without concrete policy, proper funding and actions, we will head down the same path as Australia. In under 10 years about 20 percent of New Zealanders will be over 65. In about 20 years, there will be 386,000 New Zealanders older than 85.