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What will the aged care royal commission recommend? We think we know, and how the government will respond
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FebFebruary 2021 at 11:43pm
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.