The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation stated that fixing the deprivation of elderly access to high quality of health care was abandoned until the royal commission started analysing and comparing the coverage of health issues for Indigenous people and asylum seekers.
Annie Butler said, the federation would argue that they understood the recent deliberation regarding the lack of access to healthcare for asylum seekers, the gigantic gaps for Indigenous people, and those who are in very bad positions. However, no one is paying attention in proper healthcare rejection of the elderly.
She also suggested amending the Aged Care Act to execute mandatory minimum staffing in aged home facilities to all aged care sectors. At least 65,000 jobs are needed to be filled to apply the full amount of staff required over the industry and she has given a 5 year timeline to catch up with the shortage.
According to Chief Executive of Presbyterian Aged Care NSW and ACT, Paul Sadler, that there’s no aged care provider in Australia that could manage to pay for that amount of jobs if this plan is implemented now. It would be a 40% increase in cost to compensate and the reality is that no aged care provider can afford that change right now. Currently, roughly 50% of the residential aged care services are operating in deficiency and the funding model for age care services is flawed constitutionally.
Mostly, aged people are receiving care in their own homes. Mr. Sadler added that there are 1.3 million aged Australians that are in aged care services whilst an almost equal 1.1 million are being nursed in the comfort of their own homes.
Any amendments to aged care should focus on both aged care providers and home-based healthcare.
Ian Yates, CEO of the Council on the Ageing, said that there had been a dramatic change from residential healthcare favourably for residential home healthcare packages. He also mentioned that, they normally put older people in nursing homes but noticing a high rate of rejection.
He also added that ageism was prominently particularly in the healthcare industry, and that is why care for aged people is very important to just consider picking up the fault of the Australian health system.
