The Runaway Dementia Train

The Runaway Dementia Train

By Paul McCann 

Incentives and inventiveness  are needed to appear ,

to encourage more people towards a nursing career .

Forget about tuition fees and making student loans 

 Then at least increase the shortfall of staff and nursing homes .

Dementia numbers are doubling every ten years ,

So who will care for them if all the care staff disappears  ?

The train is fast approaching now towards  dementia day

Now’s the time to get on board as tomorrows here today .

In 25 years two million people in Australia ,

Are predicted to have this condition called dementia .

Empathetic governments have turned funding drums out there ,

For research and to make the general public more aware .

The facts and the figures are on the doorsteps of aged care

Dementia’s a runaway train and brakes are needed there .  .