The saddest statistical tables in Australia today - remembering it took only 42 days for these serious Priority 1 examples of violence, neglect and abuse in residential aged care to accumulate.
Those 1,827 Priority 1 incidents were reported by a total of 392 residential aged care providers. That is est. 46 per cent of all residential aged care providers operating as of 30 June 2020.
Only 16 of the reportable notifications were investigated and, there is no guarantee that Priority 1 incidents are not being under-reported across the residential aged care industry - nor it seems is there any way of reliably checking.
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Tables taken from Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS): insight report, May 2021.
Do you have a friend or relative living in residential aged care? Perhaps next time you visit, consider taking note of the physical condition of your friend or relative as well as the state of their bed linen, room and adequacy of any meal.
If you have concerns report them by phone, in writing or online.
See: https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au/making-complaint
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