Most Aged Care Facilities employ Young, Inexperienced Student Nurses who do not understand or give a damn about the elderly. Clinical coordinators are not one bit bothered about what they do and depends whose side the Facility Manager is on, very good experienced carers get the sack because of incompetent nurses. Usually Carers are forced to write detailed accounts of residents being difficult or needing more so that they can raise more funds to 'pay' staff. I suspect the rest goes straight to their pockets. Less staff or 2 staff members (normaly always short of one) assisting 40 people. The facility manager does not want to call in an agency nurse because he has to pay more so therefor the two staff members have to do everything while the clinical coordinators and Division one nurse sits around having a good laugh after the medicine round is over, not even bothering to answer a buzzer while the two staff members are killing themselves. This is real. Most of the Facility Managers are incompetent and the Division One nurses who leave hospitals to work in Aged Care facilities find it absolutely easy, because they can call the shots demand humiliate and control Personal Carers. Unfortunately the elderly suffers a great deal so do the carers. Forget about accreditation because they ACFI staff are hired by the facilities and if they do turn up on spec they would still give them a good appraisal. When is this going to end???