Aged care: funding cuts will impact on elderly patients

By Julieanne Strachan
Updated September 21 2014 - 12:08am, first published 12:03am
Advocates for aged care are alarmed over staffing levels in nursing homes.
Advocates for aged care are alarmed over staffing levels in nursing homes.

Funding cuts to aged care are hitting the nation's nursing homes hard and have been branded "cruel and heartless" by the federal opposition.