Aged Care Royal Commission and its negative effect on the industry

[Hojuman]

Where is all the money going?
Why hasn't the quality of food increased?
Why can't the sector attract staff?
Why have training standards decreased so rapidly?

Six top aged care operators reap $2 billion from taxpayers, pay little tax - Michael West

Wherever taxpayer dollars up for grabs, rent-seekers will be there by the dozen. In Australia's aged care sector, governments pick up some 70 per cent of the chit while private providers rake in the profits, often deploying aggressive tax avoidance schemes. The upshot is that taxpayers...

www.michaelwest.com.au

 

[HPKS]

Six top aged care operators reap $2 billion from taxpayers, pay little tax - Michael West

Wherever taxpayer dollars up for grabs, rent-seekers will be there by the dozen. In Australia's aged care sector, governments pick up some 70 per cent of the chit while private providers rake in the profits, often deploying aggressive tax avoidance schemes. The upshot is that taxpayers...

www.michaelwest.com.au

Go ask anyone that works in aged care from middle management up. The whole *en thing is a grift on the elderly and everyday Australians. Number one line you’ll hear every time is “we don’t make any money” pfft

 

[Hojuman]

Go ask anyone that works in aged care from middle management up. The whole fu**en thing is a grift on the elderly and everyday Australians. Number one line you’ll hear every time is “we don’t make any money” pfft

Aged-care mogul facing legal action leaves for Greece

The co-owner of Epping Gardens nursing home, which is the subject of several investigations and a major class action over the deaths of 38 residents from COVID-19, has gone to Greece and is unable to say when he will return.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Not Important]

Six top aged care operators reap $2 billion from taxpayers, pay little tax - Michael West

Wherever taxpayer dollars up for grabs, rent-seekers will be there by the dozen. In Australia's aged care sector, governments pick up some 70 per cent of the chit while private providers rake in the profits, often deploying aggressive tax avoidance schemes. The upshot is that taxpayers...

www.michaelwest.com.au

the libs letting in private entrepreneurs stuffed the aged care sector.

 

[HPKS]

Aged-care mogul facing legal action leaves for Greece

The co-owner of Epping Gardens nursing home, which is the subject of several investigations and a major class action over the deaths of 38 residents from COVID-19, has gone to Greece and is unable to say when he will return.

www.theage.com.au

Not surprised one bit

 

[Hojuman]

the libs letting in private entrepreneurs stuffed the aged care sector.

Imagine the outcry if they privatised newborns neo-natal care.

 

[HPKS]

Imagine the outcry if they privatised newborns neo-natal care.

Imo privatisation has no place in health or education.

 

[Gough]

Another proud Rodent legacy.

 

[Puddy]

With alarming figures of a huge exodus of skilled Aged Care staff, the industry is on the verge of collapse.

The FWC verdict due next year will be too late to save the industry

 

[Not Important]

still waiting 4 albo 2 take action on the aged care report.

oh, and one of little johnny’s many stuff-ups was privatising aged care.

 

[Pie eyed]

Worker shortages, low pay and patient to staff ratios have not been addressed. How can we expect to adequately care for our elderly when we can't get this right?

Conditions in nursing homes have deteriorated ever since the Royal Commission and the changes that have been made so far have just put pressure on the staff on the floor and has had no positive effect on the lives of the patients who we supposed to be protecting.

When accreditation comes around, it comes down to dotting the i's and crossing the t's rather than the fact that their are not enough carers and nurses.

Unfortunately the Royal Commission has had a negative affect on the industry which has caused a huge exodus of workers and the lives of the ones we are supposed to be caring for have suffered.

Conditions in aged case deteriorated long before the Royal commission.
The RC shone a light on the rampant profiteering, s**t service being provided by greedy campaigners who own and run the age care facilities.
The Libs should be goaled for their malice.

* the aged care industry.
* the aged care providers.
Destroy it and rebuild to do it's job.

 

[Puddy]

Conditions in aged case deteriorated long before the Royal commission.
The RC shone a light on the rampant profiteering, s**t service being provided by greedy campaigners who own and run the age care facilities.
The Libs should be goaled for their malice.

• the aged care industry.
• the aged care providers.

Destroy it and rebuild to do it's job.

Labor had their turn to fix it aswell and are just as guilty for not protecting our elderly

 

[Pie eyed]

Labor had their turn to fix it aswell and are just as guilty for not protecting our elderly

Bullshit.
Labour had maybe 6 months with campaigner head Abbott whining every second of every day.

Where is all the money going?
To private companies for their profit
Why hasn't the quality of food increased?
Private company profit demands the cheapest food.
Why can't the sector attract staff?
Private companies pay the lowest wages for profit.
Why have training standards decreased so rapidly?
Training eats into profit.

 

[campbell]

They need nursing staff to patient ratios.

 

[Puddy]

Bullshit.
Labour had maybe 6 months with campaigner head Abbott whining every second of every day.

Where is all the money going?
To private companies for their profit
Why hasn't the quality of food increased?
Private company profit demands the cheapest food.
Why can't the sector attract staff?
Private companies pay the lowest wages for profit.
Why have training standards decreased so rapidly?
Training eats into profit.

Labor had 6 years.

 

[Puddy]

The big fear inside the industry at the moment is the wait and see approach of the current government. Instead of immediately instituting pay rises, they want to wait. While a immediate 15% pay rise may retain a few workers, it's still a lower rate than disability for a far higher workload.

The government holding off on 10% until July, then an additional 5% in July 2024 spells the death of the industry.

The collapse of aged care will result in elderly people having nowhere to live, no one left to assist them to stay alive.

 

[Vindicater]

Start taxing churches.

Use that money on aged care.

Two birds one stone.

 

[Baltimore Jack]

Start taxing churches.

Use that money on aged care.

Two birds one stone.

We could wipe out the deficit

 

[Puddy]

Start taxing churches.

Use that money on aged care.

Two birds one stone.

Can't just throw money at the problem. That's how the CEO buys a new holiday home.

 

[Not Important]

Labor had their turn to fix it aswell and are just as guilty for not protecting our elderly

there's some truth in that. aged care hasn't been a priority 4 either party. however, it was howard who monetised aged care by privatising it. out went standards of care and in came profit.

as the leading aged care advocate and researcher, prof Ibrahim, has said:

“If you look at these companies [aged care providers] they are multinational companies, they have people that work for them as lobbyists and they have people connected to government. Why would you have a government that joins with One Nation to stop people from knowing what the staffing level was in an aged care home if it wasn’t about money? It is all about money.

Is it wrong 2 hope little johnny ends up in one that is understaffed, the nutritional standards r poor so he experiences the feck-up he and his free enterprise mates have inflicted on us?

 

[campbell]

The big fear inside the industry at the moment is the wait and see approach of the current government. Instead of immediately instituting pay rises, they want to wait. While a immediate 15% pay rise may retain a few workers, it's still a lower rate than disability for a far higher workload.

The government holding off on 10% until July, then an additional 5% in July 2024 spells the death of the industry.

The collapse of aged care will result in elderly people having nowhere to live, no one left to assist them to stay alive.

Alarmist

 

[Over The Post]

Alarmist? Yes. Out of the realms of possibility? Not quite.

My pick: by 2025 the system will be in such a state that many current owners and "not-for-profits" (heh heh) will have bled everything they can out of the system and will piss off to enjoy their well-earned retirements in sunny places far far away from anything like an aged care centre.

The government will then be forced to step in and either create a national higher-standard public aged care system + the remaining good private operators, or else set up a government-owned corporation to buy out the "struggling" and below-standard operators for a metric shit-ton of our money and continue running it status quo + bandaid fixes. I'll let you decide which is the more likely scenario based on who is in government in 2025-6.

 

[Puddy]

Alarmist

I work in the industry and have for over a decade.
I'm a realist

 

[campbell]

I work in the industry and have for over a decade.
I'm a realist

mmm.

What as?
Private, church or public?

 

[campbell]

Alarmist? Yes. Out of the realms of possibility? Not quite.

My pick: by 2025 the system will be in such a state that many current owners and "not-for-profits" (heh heh) will have bled everything they can out of the system and will piss off to enjoy their well-earned retirements in sunny places far far away from anything like an aged care centre.

The government will then be forced to step in and either create a national higher-standard public aged care system + the remaining good private operators, or else set up a government-owned corporation to buy out the "struggling" and below-standard operators for a metric shit-ton of our money and continue running it status quo + bandaid fixes. I'll let you decide which is the more likely scenario based on who is in government in 2025-6.

All of the one and two star rated, need to be made public.