âItâs a facility not a homeâ: What will it take to reform aged care?
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Itâs past midday, but Merle Mitchellâs breakfast dishes were still on her table when staff at her Melbourne aged care facility brought in her lunch.
âI wouldnât say this place is a bad place, unlike lots of places,â 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 thereâs one nurse at night to 79 residents.
âItâs still a facility, itâs still not a home, and it never will be while we have the current arrangements for how we run these places.â
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