Aged Care in crisis with hospital beds
being used for Aged Care patients.
Did anyone else think that Albo promised to sort this out when he was elected?
#auspol #agedcarecrisis
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
My dad has Alzheimer’s. He needs full-time care but we have been turned away from every facility
"His illness will get worse, my mum will get weaker, neither of them are safe and nothing will be done until there is an emergency"
#AgedCareCrisis #auspol #AgedCare
Labor is cutting aged care, ignoring country roads, and threatening farming land — all while pouring billions into inner-city pet projects.
I’m standing up for Mallee because regional Australia deserves better.
#Mallee #FairGoForFarmers #AgedCareCrisis #FixOurRoads #StrongerRegions
'And up to one in two elderly Australians in the community may have an insufficient diet. "It's a serious problem in Australia," says Karly Bartrim, a dietitian and aged care interest group convenor at Dietitians Australia'
#AgedCareCrisis
"There's a high amount of political pressure which aged care providers are able to wield," according to Rodney Lewis, from the Australian Lawyers Alliance.'
#AgedCareCrisis
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'Professor Low said a high turnover of staff in the industry meant some carers were not appropriately trained.'
#AgedCareCrisis
NSW assaults in Aged Care
'..data obtained by the ABC under the Government Information Public Access Act show police recorded 4,654 incidents at such facilities last financial year
That is roughly 12 incidents a day across the state'
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'Last month’s capability review found the current leadership structure of the ACQSC is “problematic”, with too much control vested in the commissioner. It recommended four deputy commissioners be appointed...'
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“And I thought, Right, they know we’re looking and they’re trying to cover their arse,” a staff member says.' - #AgedCareCrisis #auspol
Clare Nowland
'Ben Fordham shares the same question as many for the Commissioner, which Webb couldn’t answer during last week’s press conference – ‘Will you watch the footage of the incident?’
#TASER #AgedCareCrisis...
John Hewson:
'A final area of aged-care accommodation that needs careful examination and some reform is that of #RetirementVillages or self-care units'
#AgedCareCrisis
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2023/04/22/aged-care-sho... via @SatPaper
'..with less concern for the quality of the services provided.
It’s questionable whether the provision of essential services should be subject to the profit motive, where interests of owners and shareholders can be placed above those of residents'
#AgedCareCrisis #auspol
'..our research highlights the importance of finding ways to sustainably curb the use of contract staff so as to deliver the quality of care all senior Australians deserve.'
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'The Municipal Association of Victoria said 23 councils around the state were discontinuing their aged care services or had already done so.'
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'Almost 100 aged care residents are dying from Covid each week with active cases linked to the more than 700 current outbreaks in facilities reaching near-record levels for 2022, data shows.'
#Covid19Aus
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providers'
#HomeCarePackages
#AgedCareCrisis
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/...
#AgedCareCrisis
'What we have before us here is certainly a crisis, one in which money must be spent"
#auspol #Budget2022
www.themonthly.com.au/the-politics/rachel-with...
#AgedCareCrisis
'The only way #Colbeck has “well and truly served” in the aged care portfolio is to preside over the sector being well and truly fucked.'
#auspol www.crikey.com.au/2022/03/02/richard-colbe...
#AgedCareCrisis
#ElderAbuse #Auspol
'Last week the ABC reported on an incident at #JetaGardens where a resident fell off a second storey balcony after failing to receive her pain medication on time, amid staffing...
'In March data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare regarding the percentage of aged care residents on #PsychotropicMedication will be published for the first time'
#ChemicalRestraint
#AgedCareCrisis
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“Workers have told us there is no visible surge workforce, the booster program has been a shambles, many facilities lack even the most basic PPE, and RAT tests have not been available.”
#AgedCareCrisis
#ColbeckResign
#Auspol
'such as having wounds dressed or soiled incontinence pads changed' #AgedCareCrisis #ColbeckResign
Some Aged Care residents have been locked in their rooms for weeks.
Now thats what I call unfair
#AgedCareCrisis www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/it-s-very-u...
'namely attracting more trained staff by paying a proper wage, legislating for a registered nurse to be on duty 24/7 and more transparency of how the billions in taxpayer dollars are spent'
#AgedCareCrisis
#MorrisonFail
#auspol
'The federal government has been too slow in distributing booster vaccines to all residents of aged care homes.
This raises more questions about whether Aged Care Services Minister #RichardColbeck is up to the job'
#AgedCareCrisis
#Auspol
