Coronavirus deaths exposed more cracks in Australia’s “broken” aged care system but there is hope it can change. After two years and 99 days of public hearings, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has wrapped up, with the commissioners to submit their final report in February. The …
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Wealthy Australians who could afford to fund their aged care services are barely contributing to the sector despite a “large growth in inheritance”, the aged care royal commission heard on Thursday. Former Aged Care Financing Authority chair Mike Callaghan said the current aged care funding model was inequitable. He proposed …
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The federal government is still not prepared for COVID-19 in aged care despite the first outbreak happening in March, the Royal Commission into Aged Care has heard. “Our elderly citizens, and their families, deserve better,” counsel assisting the Royal Commission Peter Rozen, QC, said in his closing submissions on Thursday. …
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THEO Vis died in a Bundaberg aged care facility with a pressure sore on his back so severe it had eaten through to his coccyx and infection had spread up into his back, according to his partner. Mr Vis, 96, suffered from bone and prostate cancer, but it was well …
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