An aged care provider should have been pushed out of the industry well before its Gold Coast retirement home's unprecedented abrupt closure, a royal commission barrister says. The federal health department should have revoked approval for People Care in 2017, ...
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Aged care home tried to cover up discovery of maggots
oor wound management led to an aged care resident having maggots found in her heel and the aged care home tried to cover it up, the royal commission has heard. Annunziata Santoro lived in residential aged care at Assisi Aged ...
More »Royal commission Sydney hearing: final days
The last two days of the Sydney hearing kept up the theme of medical restraints in aged care. Josef Ibrahim spoke at length on psychotropic misuse and we also heard from Christina Bolger, executive director, regulatory policy and performance at ...
More »Aged care worker recounts murder: royal commission
Two sisters took the stand at the aged care royal commission on Wednesday and told the room that they had held their sobbing mother’s hand as she had her teeth extracted due to neglect by an aged care facility. The ...
More »Only 10 per cent of people benefit from psychotropics: royal commission witness
Associate professor Eddy Strivens gave witness testimony to the first hearing of the Royal Commission. As the president of the Australia New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine, Strivens was called to give background on some issues facing the sector and, ...
More »Look into my crystal ball: what the peaks see for 2019
Long hours, short staffing, workplace safety, higher salaries, bullying in the workplace. These are a few of the issues that are constants for the nurses of Australia. In a federal election year, coupled with a Royal Commission into Aged Care, ...
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