Blaming the bed-blockers

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Blaming the bed-blockers

Barbara Docherty

Friday 2 March 2018, 07:43 AM

Lack of forward-planning for the entirely predictable aged-care explosion is leading to the elderly themselves being seen as the problem, writes Barbara Docherty

Have you ever heard of bed-blocking? I hadn’t either. Here in Aotearoa, it apparently refers to the increasing number of elderly people ending up in h

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