Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Lawyers assisting the aged care royal commission have recommended mandated staffing ratios in residential aged care, including the compulsory registration of aged care workers, and a new Aged Care Act that would protect the rights of older people.
The recommendations are among 124 proposed by senior counsel Peter Gray, QC, and Peter Rozen, QC, assisting the commissioners. They are contained in a 500-page submission to commissioners, Tony Pagone, QC, and Lynelle Briggs. It wasCounsel also called for the proposed new Australian Aged Care Commission - and its new commissioner - to be independent of the Aged Care Minister. The Australian Quality and Safety Commission, the existing body, is with the Commonwealth Health Department.
Mr Rozen said the commission had heard many disturbing accounts raising allegations of abuse of people living in residential aged care at the hands of caregivers and fellow residents. Merle Mitchell, who lives in aged care in Melbourne, told the commission that aged care wasn't home, but a place to live.A new recommendation for a new Act based on human rights;
Imagine if the rights of all citizens were protected by statute. No need for special laws to protect individual groups within the population, and a basis for ensuring nobody is systemically left behind.
Good. The deskilling of staff. Poor staff skill mixes. Deliberately renaming staff types to remove the word “nurse” and therefore registration and AHPRA oversight. All these things have reduced the quality of the care in the Aged Care sector. Diabolical consequences.
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