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Older Australians deserve more than the aged care royal commission’s COVID-19 report delivers
Amid the ongoing disaster in Victorian aged-care homes, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety yesterday released its special report into the COVID-19 pandemic.
This report finally states who is responsible for aged care — the federal government — finding its actions were “insufficient” to ensure the aged-care sector was prepared for the pandemic.
- Joseph Ibrahim
- The Conversation
But the report doesn’t offer us a clear picture of what went wrong and…