Question: If I'm older, can I go to work?

Answer passage (source: Australia):
page_title: Working arrangements for the health and aged care workforce during COVID-19
section_headers: When can staff come to work?
section_content: Health care providers rely on their workforce for the delivery of a range of
hospital, aged care and allied health services. This ensures that Australians
receive the health care they need to stay well and maximise quality of life.
Staff can still go to work if they have directly cared for confirmed cases
while using personal protective equipment (PPE) properly.
Where vulnerable workers undertake
essential work a risk assessment must be undertaken. Risk needs to be assessed
and mitigated, taking into account the worker, the workplace and the work.
This should be conducted with your local Public Health Unit.
Where possible vulnerable people should be redeployed to non-care based roles.
Where risk cannot be appropriately mitigated, employers and employees should
consider alternate arrangements to accommodate a workplace absence.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
There is a mention of vulnerable workers here.  The information might be helpful to some, but there is nothing specific to older workers.
This answer relates to the question of those who are allowed to go to work, although it does not specifically outline elderly folks.

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Answer passage (source: Australia):
page_title: Providing aged care services during COVID-19
section_headers: When you must not work
section_content: If you are an aged care worker, do not go to work if you have

returned from overseas in the past 14 days
travelled in the past 14 days as a cruise ship passenger or crew member
been in contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19
a fever
a symptom, even a minor symptom, of respiratory illness (cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, runny nose or nasal congestion)

Let your employer know you need to quarantine at home.
If you are a residential aged care worker, you should also only work if you
have had a flu shot. Exemptions apply in some states and territories.
To find out more, read the restrictions on entry into and visitors to aged
care facilities fact sheet.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This advice only applies to elderly care workers, not to elderly person themselves going to work.
This answer spells out the reasons that an older worker wouldn't want to return to work.  It seems like a good answer.

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Answer passage (source: Australia):
page_title: Providing aged care services during COVID-19
section_headers: Getting tested
section_content: It’s important to detect COVID-19 in health and aged care workers as early as
possible.
You are eligible for COVID-19 testing if you are an aged care worker and
develop fever or respiratory symptoms.
Your doctor will confirm whether you need to be tested and will arrange for
the test.
Aged and residential care facilities are high-risk settings. Staff (and
residents) will also be tested if there are 2 or more people with fever and
respiratory symptoms in the setting.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This answer relates to getting tested for COVID-19, not for going to work.
This answer talks about older workers.  It doesn't say if and when they should return to work though.

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