The main points to come out of the Aged Care Royal Commission this week: There were more than 3,700 assaults in Australian nursing homes in 2017-18. Some aged care providers are manipulating the government funding scheme. The aged care sector will need to triple its workforce by 2050. A South Australian man has been waiting...
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Judith Warland had it all set. After a long career in nursing, she retired two years ago. However, in seeing WA’s struggling health system, as the state braces for the expected rise in COVID patients with the February 5 border reopening, Warland decided she would return to work to help.
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The Government and the Opposition are debating whether or not the budget contained ‘new’ money for aged care, or if funds have simply been redirected from residential care to more popular home care. The Labor party has criticised the Government’s $5 billion aged care package for simply reallocating funds from residential care to more...
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