Older Tasmanians are more likely to be impacted by failing aged care services than mainland seniors because the state has the highest proportion of seniors coupled with a small number of services, the aged care royal commission has heard.
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Regional providers reject return to block funding
Regional community care providers have rejected a return to block funding, saying the benefits of consumer directed care are too important to give up.
Inquiry provides ‘series of lessons which we need’
The aged care royal commission and its findings are “brilliant” because it will lead to a better system like it did in Britain, a conference on ageing hears.
Call for RC to take human rights approach
The aged care royal commission’s interim report comprehensively addresses a range of system failures but it lacks reference to human rights, says a law expert.
Pharmacists support RMMR program review
The groups representing Australia’s pharmacists and community pharmacies have backed the aged care royal commission’s calls to strengthen medication review program.
Poor access to aged care in regional areas doesn’t add up
There should be more aged care services in regional, rural and remote Australia purely because there is a greater proportion of older people in these areas, the royal commission has heard this week.
RC ‘committed to systemic reform’ of cruel, failing system
The aged care royal commissioners have rejected industry calls for a significant increase in government funding to aged care before the end of the inquiry due to the need for a major transformation.
Stakeholders say interim report signals areas for change
The aged care royal commission’s interim report has put the government, industry and community on notice for significant reform to come, says the aged care minister.
‘Neglect’ – Royal Commission slams home care system
Home care has been identified as one of three areas requiring immediate action in the interim report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality Safety.
RC finds governments unwilling to act for last 20 years
Successive Australian governments have lacked the will to commit to change or adopt recommendations from the many aged care reviews and inquiries of the past two decades.
Inquiry hears from unions, provider peak about worker issues
Aged care workers raise concerns daily about physical violence, low pay, staff shortages and challenges securing permanent work, the royal commission hears.
International students, Pacific Islanders plug aged care workforce gap
Enterprise bargaining has been an ‘abject failure’ in terms of improving wages and conditions in the home care sector, the Royal Commssion has been told.
Pollaers calls out government over lack of action on workforce
The government needs to act on a number of workforce recommendations before the sector can improve employee attraction and retention, the workforce taskforce chair tells the royal commission.
Inquiry moves its focus to workforce issues
Reconceptualising residential aged care from an institution to a home has inadvertently led to today’s less clinically skilled and oriented workforce, an expert tells the aged care royal commission.
