Non-compliant: Dozens of SA’s aged care providers fall short
More than 100 noncompliance notices have been issued to SA aged care providers in the past 10 months, with nursing homes, in-home care and meal delivery services in the gun. See the list.
Aged Care
The Aged Care Royal Commission has highlighted a system in crisis.
150 care workers needed amid ‘critical shortage’
My Care Solution is looking for 150 care workers across SA amid a critical shortage that is limiting the ability of operators to support older people in need.
What a mess: NDIS client faces losing home
An NDIS client with disabilities faces selling his Salisbury East home to pay for his mother’s aged-care fees – now his brother says the family needs immediate help.
Minda’s $23m debt bomb revealed – and cash crisis
SA’s largest disability provider is facing a deficit of more than $10m, but blames huge NDIS shortfalls – and decisions by previous management.
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‘Dragged like a rag doll’: 100-year-old allegedly assaulted by carer
Police have launched an investigation into allegations an aged-care worker assaulted a 100-year-old resident.
‘Neglect’: Leaked reports reveal chronic Minda staff shortage
Leaked documents reveal vulnerable clients are being neglected because of chronic staff shortages at disability provider Minda, the state opposition says.
MND sufferer wins care boost
Geoff Walsh’s struggle with Motor Neurone Disease will be assisted by extra government cash after last week’s budget – and his wife’s plea in The Advertiser
Aged care shame: Left to sit in their own faeces
Elderly Australians are starving, dying in pain and suffering assaults in nursing homes, a harrowing report has revealed. WARNING: Distressing content
How chance meeting in Spotlight led to a royal commission
Barbara Spriggs was exhausted seeking justice for her husband Bob. It took a random encounter at the shops to resume the fight that led to the aged-care report.
PM grilled on aged care: ‘Don’t understand the question’
There were fireworks when Prime Minister Scott Morrison fronted the media to respond to a ‘harrowing’ report into aged care.
Why aged care needs a TripAdvisor
As the Aged Care Royal Commission prepares to have its say, families are hoping the system will no longer keep them in the dark.
‘Help me, help me!’ The human faces of aged care crisis
Four families with four heartbreaking stories throw a spotlight on a broken aged care system which leaves sick, elderly Australians waiting years for help. Some die before it comes.
Stop secrecy on aged care quality, MPs say
A South Australian senator will lobby the Federal Government to make public league tables which name Australia’s best and worst performing aged-care providers.
Aged-care workers cry foul over pay cut ‘deceit’
About 200 SA aged-care workers say they’ve been “lied to” and are facing a pay cut by as much as 20 per cent.
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