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Tauranga and Mount Maunganui will require 1,100 additional aged residential and dementia care beds due to a rising 85-plus population. Aged Care Association modelling estimates the demand will grow across the two electorates by the end of the next decade.
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Tauranga and Mount Maunganui face growing pressure to provide aged residential and dementia care facilities due to a projected rise in the local 85-plus population. Aged Care Association modelling estimates that 1100 more beds will be needed across the two electorates by the end of the next decade.
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