Good morning. A shocking new report on aged care in Australia finds people were left with untreated wounds, overcharged and wrongly prevented from leaving. And the head of the World Health Organization has called on countries to tackle the “prolonged suffering” caused by long Covid across the world.
Aged care residents have been left with festering wounds, abused for wanting to use the toilet, overcharged and wrongly blocked from attending funerals due to Covid-19, an audit has found. The report by the Older Persons Advocacy Network includes details of abuse and neglect in aged care in the past 12 months. Opan found inadequate staffing was a major factor.
