Aged care not an option for abuse victims

news.com.au
July 6, 2015

http://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/aged-care-not-an-option-for-abuse-victims/story-fnii5thn-1227431120865

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has highlighted the risk of people taking their own lives if they needed to go into an aged care facility.

VICTIMS of institutionalised child sexual abuse are so haunted by their past, going into aged care homes is not an option, Commissioner Helen Milroy says.

Ms Milroy says the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has highlighted the risk of people taking their own lives if they needed to go into an aged care facility, particularly those who were in large orphanages as children.

“A lot of people have said with us they will not go back into care, they cannot go back into care and they do not see that as an option for them,” Ms Milroy told a conference in Perth on Monday.