Published: February 17, 2019
Aged care royal commission told real number expected to be much higher because it doesn’t include assaults by residents on other residents
Almost 4,000 assaults were reported in Australian nursing homes last financial year, but the real number is likely to be much higher, the aged care royal commission has heard.
The federal health department secretary, Glenys Beauchamp, told the commission on Monday the 2017-18 figure of 3,773 assaults did not include incidents in which a cognitively impaired elderly person attacked another resident.
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