released last month<\/a>.<\/p>\nCarolyn Smith, United Worker Union\u2019s National Director of Aged Care says, \u201cToday\u2019s announcement fails to address the chronic funding needs sector-wide.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Morrison government just continues to deal out band aids to this sector. The Royal Commission has explicitly addressed the fact that workforce is the key to providing quality care, and this announcement completely fails to provide funding for that.<\/p>\n
\u201cAustralia cannot wait for the final recommendations of the Royal Commission due this time next year for the Government to act comprehensively on the crisis in this industry \u2013 particularly those older Australians dying on home care waiting lists or not receiving the care they deserve in residential facilities because of understaffing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no funding to assist with the horror stories that chronic funding shortfalls lead to, like incontinence pads being rationed.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur aged care members are working with increasingly complex care needs and they welcome the funding for increased training in dementia.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut leaving 110,000 Australians on a home care waitlist and providing nothing to increase time for quality care in residential facilities shows that the Morrison government is failing to accept the scale of the problem and the scale of the criticism levelled at them in the Royal Commission\u2019s Interim Report.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jude Clarke, residential aged care work from Western Australia says, \u201cThe workload has increased so significantly over my career that we simply don\u2019t have the time to provide emotional support to residents like we used to. It\u2019s physically, mentally and emotionally stressful, with high workloads at low wages and its turning trained professionals away from the sector. In essence, we need more funding for quality care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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