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Aged Care Crisis
@agedcarecrisis
An independent voice for community members of aged care services in Australia. Catch up with the Aged Care Crisis team, follow our updates & tweet your comments
May 7, 2023 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
Concerns regarding exploitation of the #agedcare funding system & repeated calls for accountability & transparency R well founded. A brief (by all means not comprehensive) history on #rorting or 'maximising' in aged & home care @JasonWardCICTAR @anmf_federal (2012) Nursing homes: The manner in which govt was prepared to turn a blind eye to #rorting in #agedcare was revealed when employees in the Health dept blew the whistle on ABC @4corners in 2012 web.archive.org/web/2019070807…
Aug 2, 2020 • 13 tweets • 13 min read
1/13: Following the introduction of the 1997 #AgedCareAct which abolished all economic & staffing accountability, was the 2013 euphemistically called 'Living Longer Living Better' reforms which led to a greater commercialisation of the sector #LLLB ImageImage 2/13: Catchphrases and a PR campaign using ‘choice’ and ‘control’ as the drivers were used to justify further intense marketisation and a greater shift to user pays under the #LLLB reforms #agedcareRC #auspol ImageImage
Jul 24, 2019 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
1/6 Senator Gibbs was a strong advocate for the vulnerable and disadvantaged. She realised what was going to happen in aged care and spoke out strongly when the 1997 Aged Care Bill was introduced parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/searc… #agedcareRC 2/6 Gibbs gave a telling & prophetic speech in parliament in which she aptly referred to George Orwell’s book '1984' as she described the way the words 'nursing care' had disappeared from the discourse about aged care parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/searc… #agedcareRC