Over 6,700 people with disability under the age of 65 are forced to live in aged residential care nursing homes due to the under supply of appropriate housing and support options for people with disability with higher and more complex support needs.346 People, some of whom are in their early 20s are forced to live with people who may be four times their age merely because they have similar physical nursing and support needs.
Since 2007, Australia has been implementing a national program to address this issue. However, in 2011 an outcomes report noted that the number of younger people with disability in nursing homes had been reduced by only 29 percent, leaving unacceptably high numbers of people with disability still living in nursing homes.347
