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Comedy skit underscores Aged Care crisis 4 September - How to make an aged care home with comedian and ABC personality Sammy J. Read more
Rape and murder rampant in aged care 3 September - More than 100 vulnerable elderly Australians are being raped, assaulted and murdered in residential aged care facilities every week. However, a News Corp Aged Care 360 investigation says the real number of victims could be as much as 10 Read more
High-flying aged care mogul steps down 3 September - A high-flying business mogul who owns the aged care facility at the centre of one of Australia's worst coronavirus outbreaks has resigned from his top role, reports Daily Mail Australia. Read more
Private aged care ‘disaster waiting to happen’ 27 August - A veteran Federal Liberal MP has called the privatisation of aged care “a disaster waiting to happen” and called on the Prime Minister to boost investment in not-for-profit care. Read more
ANMF calls for aged care workers’ wages to be protected 18 August - ANMF (SA Branch) officers have met with representatives of the Department for Health and Wellbeing to discuss our concerns regarding the restrictions placed on Personal Care Workers being employed in more than one facility from August 27. Read more
Aged care workers to carry the burden of aged care restrictions 18 August - The ANMF (SA Branch) is calling on the Marshall and Morrison Governments to stop the buck passing and identify solutions to ensure facilities are safely staffed and to prevent personal care workers from being financially compromised Read more
New restrictions for aged care 13 August - The State Government has imposed new COVID restrictions on the aged care sector, including prohibiting personal care workers from working at multiple sites. Read more
Aged Care alarm: ‘Hundreds more will die from COVID’ 12 August - The Royal Commission into Aged Care has been told hundreds more elderly Australians will die from COVID-19 because they are being treated as “second class citizens” during the pandemic, according to a story published on Adelaide Now. Read more
Nurses and care workers call for urgent action in aged care 7 August - Today, on Aged Care Employee Day, the ANMF (SA Branch) has written an open letter calling on the Federal Government to act now to ensure older Australians in aged care receive the care they desperately need and deserve. Read more
ANMF calls for the federal government's paid pandemic leave to be extended to ‘all aged care workers 4 August - The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has called for the Federal Government’s Paid Pandemic Leave to be extended to all aged care workers who need to get tested and self-isolate if they have symptoms of COVID-19 Read more
Paid pandemic leave for aged care workers 29 July - The ANMF (SA Branch) welcomes last night’s preliminary decision by the Fair Work Commission to grant paid pandemic leave to employees who work in the aged care sector. Read more
Share your experience of restraints in residential aged care 24 July - Working in residential aged care? Your views on physical and chemical restraints are needed to help inform a legislated review of their use, by Friday 14 August 2020. Read more

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