"People are getting six minutes to get a resident out of bed, washed, in a chair, in a lounge room. It's just madness," he told the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.
Mr Gilbert said the effect was almost immediate, with another Japara home, George Vowell in Victoria, dropping its proportion of spending to 56 per cent.It is not just staff numbers under the spotlight but also the pay rates. Personal care workers are supposed to be paid $20 to $25 an hour, but the union said it had to step in when workers were grossly underpaid.Ms Alcock didn't name the provider but said:"I estimate this underpayment is in excess of $120,000. This matter is ongoing."
Darren Mathewson from Aged and Community Services Australia said the viability of smaller providers — particularly in regional areas — would be under threat if wages increased, even if the Federal Government increased its aged care funding.
That's how they make their money. The aged are just cash cows to them.
The Government needs to pull their finger out and do something about this right now..
This Royal Commission is a waste of time. Solution? Place profit driven Administrators parents in the worst care operators, then things will change. Until then it’s another Royal Commission into Banking...🥳
Shareholders & Consumer safety = a liberal oxymoron. Disgusting ratio. What's Canberra got to say? What's the States got to say? Pathetic. And this is what your grandparents went to war and died or are dying for in private slums called nursing homes. Sick. Just sick. Gutless.
Five staff for 106 elderly residents at one of Australia's biggest nursing home chains Profiteering ripoff
I worked in a rest home 10 yrs ago and the ratio was 2 nurses to 60 patients, so sadly, this is nothing new.
lorrainewhat 'According to the union head, the reason for the low staffing levels across the industry is reforms made by the Howard government in 1997.' AgedCare auspol
Nursing homes cares for profit not for people health, they can do that because they have Liberals blessing to do what ever they want, nobody controls them. Profit before people is Liberals policy.
With these ratios, the Boards need to be held accountable. To withhold funding to generate bigger profits is not acceptable. Patients suffer, the staff are under impossible pressure - so Directors need to feel the pain as well. Jail terms for improper care levels
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