New data shows more than 100 elderly Australians in care are still being assaulted every week.
Aged care experts have slammed the federal government for "unacceptable" delays in rolling out a promised scheme to address assaults in aged care, as new data shows more than 100 elderly Australians in care are still being assaulted every week.
Joseph Ibrahim, head of the health law and ageing research unit at Monash University, said the federal government's lack of action on the thousands of reports it was sitting on "borders on criminal" and that the true number was likely much higher."We think there's a whole lot more that have been written off as falls," he said. "No one wants to deal with it."
Australian Health Services Research Institute director Kathy Eagar said it was "completely unacceptable" that the government had not yet implemented the Serious Incident Response Scheme, which it promised a year ago but will not be up and running for at least nine months. Under the proposed scheme, residential aged care providers would be required to manage incidents with a focus on residents' safety and wellbeing and reduce preventable assaults from recurring, with the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission to be given enhanced regulatory powers.
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