Max Teichmann believes that the media frenzy around the Riverside Nursing Home has somehow failed to identify the key issues in the aged care debate. The Riverside Nursing Home drama, quickly converted into melodrama by the media and the Labor Parties, Federal and State, seems to be slowly limping to an undignified close. Yet again, a rare opportunity for our society to examine major social problems – in this case the problems of ageing per se, the aged, the duties and present attitudes of their…
