Key issues for the area included urban development and the maintenance of heritage, aged care and health.

Labor budgetary policy separates aged care from other welfare expenditure.

Expenditure on aged care by all governments in 2009-10 was approximately $11 billion.

Elected to parliament in 2006, Wortley's policy interests include education, health, industrial relations, aged care, environment and natural resources.

The service now provides medical, dental, aged care, drug and alcohol services to around 55,000 patients each year.

Employment prospects are largely limited to hospitality work, aged care and the building trades which continue to benefit from rapid growth in the region.

He was shifted from the aged care to the community services portfolio after the 2006 state election.

His father was also involved in aged care, and served as a local councillor for 16 years.

Anticipation is now building as the community prepares for aged care and disability reform in Australia.

Over the next few years, she occupied a number of portfolios in relation to health, aged care and social policy.