Aged Care Staffing Levels on the Rise - but Is It Helping to Improve Q

Aged care erased: no mention of sector in Shadow Aged Care Minister interview

The words "aged care" were not uttered once in last Sunday morning's Insiders program on the ABC which featured the Shadow Minister for Aged Care Anne Ruston. The scene was set when Senator Ruston was mistakenly introduced as the Shadow Minister for Health, ignoring her high profile advocacy for the aged care sector in achieving bipartisan support for the new Aged Care Act and highlighting the number of elderly older Australians on the home care…

Aged care staffing levels on the rise - but is it helping to improve q

Efforts to increase direct care staffing levels in aged care homes are working but a new study raises a critical question: is this enough to improve quality of care for older people? Looking at data from January 2023 to March 2024, the study found that the proportion of aged care homes meeting or exceeding their total care minutes target rose from 41% to 53%. However, despite the rise in care staffing levels, the authors found no association bet…