Aged Care

Aged and Community Care Providers Association head Tom Symondson said the community needed to recognise “nurses, personal care workers and allied health professionals don’t grow on trees”. Of course the aged care workforce doesn't grow on trees. However, it will grow with better working conditions, including better pay.   Over…

According to the script of the TV series ‘Yes Minister’, there are two basic rules of government: Never look into anything you don’t have to. And never set up an enquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be. During the past decade, there have been many inquiries,…

After the heart-breaking revelations of the Aged Care Royal Commission, I hoped stories of neglect and poor treatment of older people were behind us. Not so, thanks to the decision of some local Councils to wash their hands of aged care services. Just this week we have heard that thousands…

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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