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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National

The steps industry must take to make aged care work like it should

IT is easy to blame the provider for conditions in residential aged care facilities (RACFs), but I believe the situation is due to decisions made by Commonwealth and state governments.

RACFs were never designed or staffed to care for the range of medical issues with which they now have to deal. The traditional client group for RACFs were people needing high level nursing care and people with dementia without major behavioural issues.

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