The changes will be limited to those entering the residential aged care system from July 1 next year to spare today’s residents from sweeping changes to the financial arrangements.
As well as the financial cost,unpaid caregiving responsibilities are taking a toll on carers’ mental health and their longer-term life satisfaction.
Some aged care providers are turning to artificial intelligence to make decisions best made by someone with a heart.
In regional Australia,more than a third of residents are aged over 55. If only the government was doing something about this growing demographic crisis.
There could be a shortage of 13,000 nurses in the aged care sector by 2030. The national nursing federation says the industry has to do more to attract and retain nurses.
Faced with older residents,with more complex health conditions,the aged care facilities of the future will need to be more hospital than retirement village.
There is a crisis in aged care:beds are empty,while people are being forced into hospitals due to a lack of beds. Reforms are urgently required.
A 27-year-old man was given a prison sentence on Thursday after CCTV cameras caught him sexually assaulting a man with dementia and Parkinsons in Claremont.
The shortage could leave the sector without 21,200 beds as operators warn of financial pressures that will force them to close more homes than they build.
The new deal would require aged care residents with higher incomes to pay more for food and accommodation,while their health services would be funded in full.
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