High rents, difficulty finding secure employment and an inadequate age pension: these are among the reasons more older Victorians are becoming homeless. COTA Victoria’s CEO, Tina Hogarth-Clarke, addressed these and other issues when she spoke to the Victorian Parliament’s Social and Legal Issues Committee’s inquiry into homelessness in early July. Ms Hogarth-Clarke presented to the […]
MEDIA RELEASE 5 December 2018 The Council on the Ageing (COTA) Victoria is today calling for more actions to reduce the cost of living pressures for older Victorians in response to a new landmark national report launched today in Canberra. The State of the (Older) Nation 2018 Report is the most comprehensive national study ever undertaken
How does a mature well-educated, white middle class woman suddenly find herself facing homelessness and poverty? Jane Gilmore believes she is ‘lucky’. Her education, her mum and her ability to access resources has meant poverty but survival. It has also meant dealing with humiliation, shame and loss of hope. ‘Divorce, debt and redundancy had crashed
