Advocates are calling for "social and emotional" services to be covered under the future care minutes model and new funding model, as, currently, these new aged care reform changes do "not count" allied health services part of this new system.
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With 30% of the aged care workforce in isolation, a new union survey has revealed that four in five aged care staff believe their facility was not prepared for the Omicron outbreak, with workers dealing with “severe understaffing” and “excessive workloads”.
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The royal commission has heard a respite care resident at Garden View nursing home in Sydney’s Merrylands was regularly restrained and medicated without consent during his nearly two-month stay. Michelle McCulla and Natalie Smith recalled the harrowing treatment their father, Terry Reeves, received at Garden View nursing home during a respite stay while their mother travelled...
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