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Serious issues with the new Aged Care Act 2024

22 Sep, 2024
Background of the Aged Care ActWarning: To understand the issues and problems with the…

Consultation of the new Aged Care Act

02 Mar, 2024
Response to Consultation on the draft of the new Aged Care Act (2024) Submission to…

A new model for regulating aged care

19 Jul, 2023
Submission in response to the Department of Health Consultation Paper No. 2: A new model…

Regulatory changes are driving the best providers out of aged care

19 May, 2023
Regulatory changes and ever more complex regulatory processes can have adverse…

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Home Care Packages Information: Has the Government been accountable?

News regarding Home Care Packages (HCP) and reports of concerns by the community was…

Open letter to politicians about privatisation of ACAT

Aged Care Crisis wrote a letter to state based health ministers, shadow ministers and…

Aged care residents reveal which centres are the worst to live in

Response to Sydney Morning Herald article Aged care residents reveal which centres are…

Open letter to the Royal Commission regarding ACAT privatisation

Aged Care Crisis wrote an open letter to the Commissioner's regarding the minister's…

Building a Humane Future in Robertson

29 Nov, 2019
Author: Michael D. BreenSometimes what is missing is more important than what is sticking…

Crisis? What crisis?

09 Oct, 2019
Crisis is a word all too often thrown around in relation to the Aged Care Industry. Sadly…

Legal Issues Column

Unlawful restraint in aged care
Legal Issues Column Aged Care Crisis 30 Sep, 2021

Can legal action bring change when aged care regulations do not?

Two leading elder law firms are combining resources to help residents in aged care facilities being unlawfully chemically restrained, and their concerned family members. A recent Commonwealth Government audit showed that 90 per cent of residents at a…

Legal redress for aged care residents

01 Sep, 2020 Rodney Lewis
Consumer protection
The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 21st of August the claim that the aged care…

Do we have an aged care gulag?

18 Jun, 2020 Aged Care Crisis
Do we have an aged care gulag?
From the 1920s to the early 1950s millions of innocent people in the USSR were sent to…

New law to criminalise elder abuse for the Australian Capital Territory

19 May, 2020 Rodney Lewis
New law to criminalise elder abuse for the Australian Capital Territory
 This is a summary of the Attorney General's speech in presenting the Crimes (Offences…

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Resident Committees
The Column Aged Care Crisis 29 Jan, 2018

Resident Committees

Just the other day a friend drew my attention to the comment below. It is dated January 2018 and is a response to an article in Australian Ageing Agenda (written in November 2015) re one of the many reviews into aged care. It refers to the need for higher…

No mandated staff/resident ratios, no transparency, no research

10 Jun, 2015 Aged Care Crisis
No mandated staff/resident ratios, no transparency, no research
People are usually stunned to learn that there are no set staff/resident ratios in aged-care homes. They simply assume that frail older people in care will be treated like other…

All residents of aged-care homes need protection

30 May, 2015 Aged Care Crisis
Imagine waking from deep sleep to see a stranger’s face staring right down at you
Imagine waking from deep sleep to see a stranger’s face staring right down at you. Then imagine that someone enters your private space many times a week and that you are 96 years…

Dreading aged care

10 Apr, 2015 The Columnist
Dreading aged care
Last week the federal government finally got around to announcing its long-promised, aged-care reform agenda. Yet the stunning thing about the announcement was not the package…