With an outflux of young adults and or school leavers, streaming out of the rural and less densely populated areas like Kalgoorlie, leaving behind only the elderly and very young has left these places with major problems for the state.
Problems that state-funded departments like NDIS OT Kalgoorlie face daily, as the people left behind (the elderly and very young) are usually the ones that need an OT when ill.
With the state having to fund this health treatments, or by retired OT’s living in the area, like any other rural area globally, there are never enough health workers for that specific area as for some reason the patient and health worker ratio is never correct and always unbalanced against the patient.
With that major problem as well as access to these patients being another challenge as access roads are always rugged or unpassable for your everyday vehicles used by these health workers!
