Published: September 16, 2018
Nobody should have to fear ending up in a nursing home. This royal commission is a chance to finally get it right
The government’s announcement of a royal commission into the provision of aged care in Australia had a number of triggers: increasing scandals within the sector; concerns about levels of funding and then, finally, a two-part investigative series by the ABC’s Four Corners.
The trigger that perhaps won’t be immediately recognised until the commission starts its hearings is that the pace of reform by both sides of government had been woefully slow. Despite multiple inquiries into aged care – including the most recent into the Oakden nursing home in South Australia – there has been little substantive reforms over the past decade.
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