Aged care residents who have been restrained without consent have been left with no legal recourse after an amendment to an aged care bill now means that providers are ‘immune’ to criminal and civil prosecution.
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Australia is facing a shortfall of at least 110,000 aged care workers within a decade – or 400,000 workers by 2050 – unless urgent action is taken to boost the workforce now, a new report has warned.
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Sometime today, the Minister for Aged Care, Ken Wyatt, will receive the long awaited report into improving the quality of aged care. Initiated after the Oakden scandal, which saw the closing down of a South Australian dementia facility after where there was mistreatment and abuse of their elderly dementia patients, a panel was called created...
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