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#australianvalues

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skua<p>3/3</p><p>I'm thinking that what's happening around this is another aspect of the value system that's given us <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RoboDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoboDebt</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InstitutionalisedChildAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InstitutionalisedChildAbuse</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScottMorrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottMorrison</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CovidFreedomMarches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidFreedomMarches</span></a>, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HousingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HousingCrisis</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DomesticViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticViolence</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DrugAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrugAbuse</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suicide</span></a>, and entrenched harassment, discrimination and bullying.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AustralianValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianValues</span></a> aren't all they're cracked up to be. And are producing fair bit of misery.</p>
skua<p>2/3<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AustralianValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianValues</span></a></p><p>Back to Option C. "no one wanting to visit them".</p><p>Folk sought to increase communication between Fam&amp;Friends and Aged Care residents.<br>Made an app.<br>Technically a success.<br>But it appeared to them that Fam&amp;Friends actually didn't want to communicate with the elderly person in care.</p><p>Am asking, "In purely selfish things, what do you get for you out of interacting with geriatric / frail / senile / institutionalised aged folk?"</p><p>Anything at all?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgedCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgedCare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhyBother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhyBother</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Values" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Values</span></a></p>
skua<p>1/3</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a><br>Looking at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AustralianValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianValues</span></a>.</p><p>In the light of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgedCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgedCare</span></a> both commercialised and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgingInPlace</span></a>.</p><p>Claim is that some 50% of institutionalised aged care recipients don't get even one visitor a year.</p><p>It's been pointed out that many of these folk will have made choices that; A. had them lacking a support community, B. had them with no friends/family who they wanted to visit them, and/or, C. have no one wanting to visit them.</p><p>Their choices form part of Australia's values.</p>
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