While it's tremendous to see funding for 200 minutes of daily care and 24/7 nurse care in aged care homes, where's the workforce to deliver it?
This National Carers Week and Mental Health Month, I'd like to share some resilience tips for our growing demographic of male carers.
Too often carers push themselves to the limit. Their call for help may come too late for their own health. Carers, act early and find support!
For new aged care reform to happen, we must attract and retain aged care workers with so much more... But let's start with adequate pay!
To carry out the new aged care reforms, we have ten to fourteen months to find 869 nurses and thousands of aged care workers.
An outline of the key aged care reforms, recently passed by Federal Parliament, and the number of reforms that need to come.