Posted by Alumni from The Conversation Newsletter
October 24, 2020
This article is part of our series on aged care. You can read the other articles in the series here. Australia’s aged care sector has been the subject of more than 30 major inquiries and reviews since 1997. It is fair to say the findings have been highly critical of the way aged care is run in this country. Many of these concerns have been brought to light again — along with new issues raised — in the ongoing Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Yet, as the royal commission has noted, successive Australian governments have shown a “lack of willingness to commit to change”. Responses often come years after the review and recount what has been done in an almost tangential way. Even the establishment of the royal commission was not based on previous inquiries or recommendations, but in response to media exposes of the appalling conditions in some aged care facilities. Read more: Aged care failures show how little we value older people – and those who... learn more