Shock aged-care failure: Abused in the shower and not reported
Staff at an aged-care provider looking after some of SA’s most vulnerable Indigenous people never reported a shocking shower abuse case.
Aged Care
The Aged Care Royal Commission has highlighted a system in crisis.
‘Botched’ aged-care CCTV trial created 12,000 false alerts
An aged-care CCTV trial set up by the Liberals – and which cost nearly $1m – has been dumped after it generated so many false alerts staff missed actual resident falls.
‘Deficient’: Damning findings against Human Services dept
The disability Royal Commission has slammed SA’s Department for Human Services over internal investigations it carried out into shocking complaints.
Aged-care strike: ‘I worked alone with 35 residents’
Striking AnglicareSA aged-care workers demanding a better pay rise say they often work understaffed and are burnt out after Covid. But Anglicare says they are paid above the award.
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Best and worst in aged care may stay hidden
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Beer’s ‘dirt cheap’ fix for nursing home food
The shocking food quality exposed by the aged care royal commission is not too expensive to fix, the celebrity chef says.
‘They don’t feel like they are real people’
Nurse Sharon Lawrence says staff cuts in aged care mean the elderly are being dehumanised. She says they need mandatory staffing levels –as childcare has.
Most aged-care residents believe needs are not met
An “alarming” report for the aged-care royal commission has found less than a quarter of the people in residential care feel fully taken care of.
Family threat to elderly parents
Elderly South Australians are being abused or neglected by their own children almost half of the time, a new report warns.
‘Severe risk’: Non-compliant SA aged care homes busted
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