Aged Care In News

Broadcast: 11/04/2013 Reporter: Margot O’Neill Aged care experts believe hundreds of assaults in Australia’s 2000 nursing homes are going unreported because they are committed by violent dementia patients. TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Industry experts believe hundreds of assaults in nursing homes…

Broadcast: 22/07/2013 Reporter: Steve Cannane More than 70 per cent of nursing home residents are being sedated often heavily as a form of behaviour management despite evidence that the drugs can lead to injury and death.

Anne Connolly reported this story on Friday, September 19, 2014 18:30:00 MARK COLVIN: There are calls for a royal commission into nursing home care and the way the industry is regulated.

Aged care workers say nursing home patients are suffering due to staff shortages.