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'It's a facility not a home': What will it take to reform aged care?


‘It’s a facility not a home’: What will it take to reform aged care?
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It’s past midday, but Merle Mitchell’s breakfast dishes were still on her table when staff at her Melbourne aged care facility brought in her lunch.
“I wouldn’t say this place is a bad place, unlike lots of places,” she says.
Merle Mitchell.
Credit:Jason South
Her facility did not experience the catastrophic outbreaks of COVID-19 experienced in other homes last year, but staffing levels mean there’s one nurse at night to 79 residents.
“It’s still a facility, it’s still not a home, and it never will be while we have the current arrangements for how we run these places.” ....

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