Self-reporting from aged care providers leaves the door ajar for data manipulation, and some have already taken steps to ensure that negative feedback isn’t included in quarterly reporting.
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There is a “pipeline” of young people moving from hospital to residential aged care, and often other options are not even considered, the royal commission has heard. Every week in Australia, on average 42 younger people enter residential aged care, the equivalent of six per day or 2,000 every year. Most are sent to aged...
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With an aged care home in the regional town of Whyalla due to shut its doors within weeks, only about half of the facility’s residents have been able to secure a new home.
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