Q. The Federal Government recently announced changes to aged care which included extra funding, better access to aged care services, capping costs of aged care accommodation and in-home care and means testing aged care accommodation costs. How much have you read or heard about those aged care changes?
|
Total |
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
|
| A lot |
7% |
11% |
7% |
4% |
| Some |
26% |
31% |
26% |
26% |
| A little |
32% |
28% |
35% |
32% |
| Nothing |
30% |
25% |
28% |
37% |
| Don’t know |
5% |
4% |
5% |
1% |
Just 7% of respondents claim to have read or heard ‘a lot’ about the recent Federal Government changes to aged care. A further 26% have read or heard ‘some’.
32% of respondents have read or heard ‘a little’ while 30% have read or heard ‘nothing’.
Labor voters were more likely to have read or heard ‘a lot’ (11%) or ‘some’ (31%).
There were no significant differences based on gender.
Older respondents were more likely to state that they had read or heard ‘some’ about the aged care changes (33% of those aged 55-64 and 39% of those aged 65+).
