4 years ago
50,000 INCIDENCES OF ASSAULT AND ABUSE IN AGED CARE
Julie Collins MP
Deeply disturbing new figures have for the first time revealed more than 50,000 incidences of assault and abuse in aged care across the country are going unreported each year.
The figures, contained in a report handed to the Government more than six months ago and finally made public on the eve of World Elder Abuse Day, must force Scott Morrison to act.
The Morrison Government is still yet to introduce a serious incident response scheme that would respond to incidences of assault and abuse in Australia’s aged care system.
It has now been three years since this scheme was first recommended by the Australian Law Reform Commission following its landmark investigation of elder abuse in Australia.
A separate review commissioned by the Government following the Oakden nursing home tragedy also recommended introducing the scheme in 2017.
How can anyone trust this Government to properly respond the Royal Commission into Aged Care when it takes more than three years to respond to such an important recommendation?
Labor has been calling for the implementation of this scheme since both reports were released in 2017.
Any abuse of older Australians in aged care is completely unacceptable and it is up to the Government to do everything it can to stop it and to do this we need to know what is happening.
The figures, contained in a report handed to the Government more than six months ago and finally made public on the eve of World Elder Abuse Day, must force Scott Morrison to act.
The Morrison Government is still yet to introduce a serious incident response scheme that would respond to incidences of assault and abuse in Australia’s aged care system.
It has now been three years since this scheme was first recommended by the Australian Law Reform Commission following its landmark investigation of elder abuse in Australia.
A separate review commissioned by the Government following the Oakden nursing home tragedy also recommended introducing the scheme in 2017.
How can anyone trust this Government to properly respond the Royal Commission into Aged Care when it takes more than three years to respond to such an important recommendation?
Labor has been calling for the implementation of this scheme since both reports were released in 2017.
Any abuse of older Australians in aged care is completely unacceptable and it is up to the Government to do everything it can to stop it and to do this we need to know what is happening.