Aged-care workers earn little more than the minimum wage. Yet their job goes far beyond cleaning and caring. It's time to take a leaf out of the nursing profession's book and encourage more career prestige.
The story behind Regis Nedlands shocking failures to meet basic aged care standards
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Dik, Brian and Vera s families paid top dollar for them to live at a lovely nursing home, but damning reports from the aged care regulator and allegations by a group of trainee nurses tell another story.
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It was two days before Christmas last year when Lea Hammond received a call from her father s nursing home in Perth saying an ambulance was taking him to hospital. There was a heatwave that day, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius.
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Subscriber only Murwillumbah aged care supporters are highlighting the need for safe staffing levels ahead of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, which is due to hand down its final report on Friday. As the Commission is expected to hand down a damning indictment of the Government s management of the aged care sector, members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) are calling on the Morrison Government, and all political parties, to act. Association member, Claire Bathgate, said aged care could no longer be ignored by the government. She said aged care nurses from Murwillumbah to Albury, Broken Hill to the Blue Mountains are highlighting the need for staffing ratios and greater transparency of government funding linked to care.
Labor will launch a hard-hitting campaign that targets failures in Australia’s aged care sector, ahead of the Royal Commission into the sector handing its final report to the Morrison government this week.
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