Australia is investing in more aged care beds, but beds do not provide care, carers do. Nurse and clinical case manager Jacinta Coulston explains why professionalising PCAs is essential for better outcomes for older Australians.
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The government has given its own glossy take on how well Support at Home is doing, with a recent submission to a Senate inquiry boasting falling wait times, more places and stronger protections. However, when you dig a little deeper into their own figures and the picture starts looking a lot less impressive.
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The Commonwealth Ombudsman has found Labor’s aged care algorithm “unreasonable”. It can’t be overridden, even when clinicians agree it’s wrong. Within hours, the ministers blamed the system they “inherited,” despite the fact they created the IAT tool and continue to defend it.
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