Energy costs are making it harder for Australians to age comfortably and healthily in their own homes.The two are inexorably linked, says Queensland University of Technology professor Ross Gordon, who wants policy and programs to take a holistic perspective acknowledging the association.
He's happy because it saves enough electricity to run his TV most of the day, which is his main source of social contact and entertainment. Yet she hasn't installed air-conditioning and rarely uses her electric space heater, meaning she doesn't feel she can invite friends over because her home isn't cosy and welcoming.
The LNP deal in allowing private sector to swallow up fossil fuel energy distribution, its ideological opposition to welfare and it's climate crisis denial have resulted in a crisis of ever expanding proportion
So we die at home and the body is forcibly taken to be cut up and gutted and then citizens get the pleasure of paying huge transport costs taking the body for disposal,especially the country people who must pay horrific amounts in transport cost,but we are only peasants I suppose
In Summer, take cold showers and in Winter, just rug up.
Rising cost of living affects ageing comfortability ?
I certainly can believe this.