Aged Care

It is imperative that aged care workers receive a significant pay rise. However, many aged care providers are private ‘for-profit’ - including publicly listed  companies (Estia, Regis) and multinational corporations (Bupa, Opal).  Do these large commercial businesses expect a pay rise for their staff to be funded by the government?…

Does the Albanese government really want to be remembered as the one that stripped many older Australians of their fundamental legal and human rights? The federal government has recently made numerous, welcome commitments to improve the lives of older people living in residential aged care. Yet there is one glaring…

A MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire councillor claims the federal government “forced” the shire to outsource its aged care services to private providers. Really? This contradicts advice from the Department of Health and Aged Care. The department states that it encourages councils to deliver aged care services: “ have been consulted, encouraged…

Aged care providers cannot keep putting their hand out for additional government subsidies. Labor went to the election with a five-point plan for aged care that included improving financial transparency. We need to be confident that our taxes are spent on providing care for older people not sports cars for…

I have spent six years trying to improve the aged care system on behalf of older people and families. This has been done as an unpaid advocate with no government funding. The aged care system is broken. Numerous inquiries, including a royal commission, have revealed evidence of poor care, negligence,…

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Demanding accountability from the Minister for Aged Care Services, Richard Colbeck, is being “a knocker”. So says our King of Spin, Scott Morrison. Given the media’s new obsession with appearances – and whether people smile for the camera – it was not a good look for Colbeck to be enjoying…

Many aged care homes are not designed to cope with an airborne virus. Without good ventilation, Covid has spread like wildfire in aged care homes. On December 3, there were 28 aged care homes with an outbreak. By Christmas Eve, the number of outbreaks had increased to 105. By 7 January,…

When the federal government decreed that Australians should “live with Covid”, the safety of older people living in aged care homes was once again not on the Coalition’s radar. In yet another predictable disaster, Covid has spread like wildfire in aged care homes. On Christmas Eve, 105 aged care homes…

Just when you think this government can’t get any more sneaky. In a virtually unnoticed move, the Coalition government has snuck an alarming last-minute amendment into an aged care bill before Parliament that removes the legal and human rights of aged care residents. The amendment removes the civil and criminal…