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If we have the guts to give older people a fair go, this is how we fix aged care in Australia
In the face of the harrowing findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and the COVID-19 crisis, it’s abundantly clear the...
Over the past couple of decades, government regulation has failed to keep pace with an increasingly privatised market of for-profit providers.
- Joseph Ibrahim
- The Conversation
Successive parliamentary inquiries, productivity commissions and the like have offered many solutions, but few have been adopted.
Each time we see a piecemeal approach with adjustments in only one part of residential aged care, rather than wholesale reform.
The greatest failing of our…