Bindy Marshall

Attwood Marshall Lawyers’ Accredited Aged Care Professional and Paralegal Bindy Marshall appeared live on Channel Seven Sunrise to talk about the Aged Care We Care Appeal.

The holiday season is a time to show compassion, care and support – especially to those who might otherwise not receive a gift. The Aged Care We Care Appeal has embodied this spirit for the past nine years.

Each Christmas, Bindy Marshall, supported by Attwood Marshall Lawyers and a network of local businesses and organisations, collects and delivers gifts to the ‘forgotten elderly’ who have nobody to visit them at Christmas.

What began as a small gesture to several local aged care facilities nine years ago, has grown into a remarkable initiative. This year, 51 facilities, including 5 hospitals, participated, and an incredible 1,190 aged care residents received personalised, wrapped gifts – spreading joy to so many.

Bindy personally wrapped the presents from her home, with the help of her daughter Sienna, husband Bruce, and an army of volunteers from the aged care sector and the Girl Guides.

Bindy is the founder and chairperson of the Gold Coast Seniors Round Table, a forum of around 300 Aged Care industry professionals who come together each month to discuss how to improve the aged care and retirement living sectors.

Saturday 14 December 2024

Attwood Marshall Lawyers’ Accredited Aged Care Professional and Paralegal Bindy Marshall was featured by Channel 7 News, talking about her work with the Gold Coast Seniors Round Table’s Aged Care We Care Appeal.

For nearly a decade, our Accredited Aged Care Professional and Paralegal Bindy Marshall has been collecting, wrapping and delivering gifts every year to the elderly who are alone or may be forgotten at Christmas.

Channel 7 News’ Amanda Abate reported on how Bindy plays ‘Santa’ every year by collecting and delivering around 1,200 gifts to residents in aged care facilities and hospitals, who have no family or friends to visit them at Christmas time.

From starting her collections in September through to November, then in December wrapping with her own merry band of volunteer ‘elves’ at her house, Bindy endeavours to ensure a personalised gift for aged care residents to remind them someone has thought of them, this Christmas.

Bindy has run the Aged Care We Care Appeal via a voluntary group she has developed and chaired for a decade; the Gold Coast Seniors Round Table.

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Saturday 14 December 2024

The federal government’s announcement of more home care packages made the headlines recently. Speaking to Sydney Radio station, 2SM Super Radio Network, our Aged Care Paralegal and Accredited Aged Care Professional, Bindy Marshall told breakfast host, Tim Webster, it’s still not enough.

Over 200,000 Australians are waiting, some for over a year to access essential services that allow them to stay in their own homes, including personal care, domestic support, nursing, meals, and transport.

During the radio interview, Bindy emphasised the rights of our seniors should be paramount, and the government should follow through with their promises.

“They should be afforded the dignity to age in place at home and quite honestly, it’s a joke that we’re promoting the reforms, we’re pushing them out there to say we’re going to give you this opportunity to age in place at home, but they’re not really.”

To hear Bindy’s interview in full, click below:

The number of seniors waiting for a home care package has grown nationally from 289,000 to 364,000 in just one year. And on the Gold Coast, 158 older hospital patients are well enough to be discharged but have nowhere to go.

Attwood Marshall Lawyers Senior Paralegal and Accredited Aged Care Professional Bindy Marshall was interviewed by reporter Amanda Abate for Channel 7 Queensland news, speaking from our Robina office about the growing gap between demand for aged care services and the funding available to meet it.

“We always knew that the baby boomer generation was coming in, but we’ve done nothing to prepare for it,” Bindy said. “Our most vulnerable are going to become forgotten. We’ve got so many people up in limbo.”

Watch the segment here.

Proposed changes to how GPs bulk bill aged care residents were due to take effect on 1 July 2026, replacing verbal consent with signed documentation before every consult.

Attwood Marshall Lawyers Senior Paralegal and Accredited Aged Care Professional Bindy Marshall told Channel 7 Queensland news that the proposed changes, if introduced as planned, would have been “fraught with danger,” given “95% of our clients cannot sign or consent for themselves.”

If a client couldn’t give consent and was unable to pay privately for a GP visit, she said facilities would have had “no other choice but to bundle them into an ambulance and send them straight to hospital.”

The backlash from the aged care and medical sectors was significant enough that Canberra has since pressed pause on the reforms, introducing a 12-month transition period.

Watch the segment here.

And read Bindy’s opinion piece on the government’s reprieve here.