It is more cost-effective for aged care providers to develop its existing workforce and full-time opportunities instead of always onboarding new staff, an aged care policy forum has heard.
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Australians encouraged to pursue aged care opportunities
The Morrison Government has welcomed the launch of a new campaign encouraging Australians to consider jobs in aged care.
The campaign, “Bring your Thing”, commissioned by the Aged Care Workforce Industry Council, highlights the diverse range of skills and professions employed in aged care, including chefs, hair stylists, maintenance workers, and social coordinators.
Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services, Senator Richard Colbeck, said he hoped more Australians will consider a career in aged care.
“One of the great messages in the campaign is that working in aged care, where human connections are at the core of the roles, is meaningful and rewarding,” Minister Colbeck said.
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Luigi Cantali, with his head down, at an aged care facility in Sydney s inner west.
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Over the past three years, I ve examined hundreds of hours of hidden camera footage from Australia s nursing homes.
Some showed outright physical abuse, others revealed the so-called rough handling that comes from untrained, insensitive and overworked carers.
But there is one collection of footage that remains firmly in my mind, because instead of revealing an explosion of violence it shows a type of human rights abuse that is so common in aged care that it goes almost unremarked.