treasurer...'

#AgedCareCrises

www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2022/march/1646053...

#AgedCareCrises
The #Apostolatos brother's were banned from running a chicken farm due to animal cruelty, but allowed to operate Aged Care facilities in Alphington and Mt Martha

Federal Govt regulation should protects elders from exploitation and Govt incompetence

#ChronosCare

#AgedCareCrises

'Shockingly, Aged Care Minister #RichardColbeck remains unabashed and in his post despite the two-year-long debacle of avoidable deaths in aged care homes'

#auspol

#SackColbeck...

'There are no ratios of nursing staff to residents, or minimum standards in private and not-for-profit aged care'

#AgedCareCrises

Why Victorian public aged care homes were spared the worst of coronavirus...

'Public homes have one nurse for every seven residents during the morning, one to eight during afternoons and one nurse for every 15 residents overnight. Victoria is the only state with a large public aged care sector'

#AgedCareCrises #auspol #springst...

#AgedCareCrises
A 'taskforce is not going to fix either the current crisis or the structural issues plaguing the sector. The sector, it’s obvious, needs urgent action to save lives, to prevent more unnecessary suffering..'...

#BoosterStrollout
#ColbeckResign

'It's just another mistake in a sector that lurches from one crisis to another while the main recommendations of the royal commission continue to be ignored..'

#AgedCareCrises...

#AgedCareCrises

'The government knows just how politically devastating the aged care crisis is.

Perhaps that's why the Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, engaged in an insulting attempt to downplay the severity of the mounting death...

'The pictures and the headlines that would accompany such an action are not a good look just months out from an election'
#Auspol
#AgedCareCrises

Omicron 'will likely kill many more people in nursing homes as the weeks pass.

The numbers who will die of #malnourishment and #neglect because of a lack of staff will never be known.'

#Auspol
#AgedCareCrises
#ElderAbuse

'Senator #Colbeck told Tuesday's hearing 2194 aged care staff in Victoria had contracted the virus and all but three had since recovered.'

#AgedCareCrises
#InfectionControl
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Governments are facing tough questions on how this has go... The big question is this: would our governments and the a...

'The vast majority of staff are personal-care workers who are lowly paid, at $23 an hour, despite an enormous workload....'
#AgedCareCrises
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-02/melbourn...

'A nationwide survey of more than 1,000 aged care homes found 65 per cent in regional areas were operating at a loss in the September financial quarter of 2019.'
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