Dutch Scheme could help save Australia's Aged Care crisis
The Courier Mail's Des Houghton reported that after it was revealed 230 older Australians die each week waiting for government help to stay at home, pioneering Dutch neighbourhood care scheme may offer a solution to Australia’s burgeoning aged care crisis.
Neighbour nurse plan 'a big boon to elderly'
A new “neighbourhood nursing” scheme could keep older Australians in their own homes longer and save the economy $4.5bn a year, the aged-care royal commission has been told.
16,000 elderly died waiting for Home Care
Here at NPAQ headquarters we were alarmed to read in the interim report of the Royal Commission in to aged care that 16,000 elderly Australians died waiting for Home Care packages.
This is a disgrace.
Our members (and one of our executives) have told us they have elderly parents who have waited three years for a package.
We intend to highlight this failure in our submission to the Royal Commission.
Aged Care QLD: Nurses claim cover up
NATASHA BITA, The Courier-Mail
September 22, 2019
A woman choked to death on her food, another was not bathed for two years and busy staff turned off call bells. These are just some of the contested allegations Queensland nurses will make to the Royal Commission into aged care abuse.
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