Aged care nurses call for urgent reform
With the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety delivering its final report to the Federal Government today, aged care nurses and carers are speaking up about the systemic issues plaguing the sector and need for urgent reform. Activist group GetUp, who is lobbying for aged care reform, says more than 500 people have […]
Aged care workers call for action on ratios as Royal Commission Final Report looms
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) members working in aged care have shared their experiences grappling with longstanding issues plaguing the sector, headed by chronic understaffing, to help highlight the need for urgent reform ahead of the release of the Aged Care Royal Commission’s final report tomorrow. The ANMF has been calling on the Federal […]
Less than a quarter of aged care residents’ needs always met, study finds
Less than a quarter of aged care residents feel their care needs are always met, new research from the Aged Care Royal Commission has revealed. Undertaken by the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University, the study, Australia’s aged care system: the quality of care experience and community expectations, underlines the need for comprehensive aged care […]
Third of aged care residents admitted to an emergency department
Third of aged care residents admitted to an emergency department
Managing resident to resident assault in residential aged care homes
Managing resident to resident assault in residential aged care homes
Victorian government backs staff-to-resident ratios in private aged care
Victorian government backs staff-to-resident ratios in private aged care
Nurses in government-run aged care homes provide the most amount of care, study finds
Nurses in government-run aged care homes provide three times the amount of care to each resident per day than not-for-profit and for-profit facilities, a new study from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has revealed. The study, described as the most detailed profile on the quality of residential aged care facilities ever […]
Counsel Assisting team call for mandated staffing ratios at Aged Care Royal Commission
Counsel Assisting team call for mandated staffing ratios at Aged Care Royal Commission
Understaffing tops concerns held by aged care residents
Only a quarter of aged care residents feel that their care needs are always met, while nearly half are most concerned about understaffing, a new report for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has found. The National Ageing Research Institute study, Inside The System: Aged Care Residents’ Perspectives, was published today ahead […]
Aged care ‘failing’ older Australians and in need of major overhaul, report finds
Aged care ‘failing’ older Australians and in need of major overhaul, report finds