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Which aged care problem?

18 August 2009Policy makers are in danger of dealing with the wrong issues, writes Lynn Arnold in the Adelaide Review

DEEP IN THE MESS that is my desk, I have a copy of a Dilbert comic strip that I keep for its cautionary value as well as its humour. The last block of the strip has an obviously frustrated Dilbert screeching at his boss, saying through clenched teeth: “You are solving the wrong problem!”

I have now been at Anglicare SA nearly a year and a half. Almost half of Anglicare’s activity is working with older South Australians; which means I am hearing more frequently than ever that we are an ageing society...

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Lynn Arnold, a former premier of South Australia, is chief executive of Anglicare SA

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