{"id":987522087,"date":"2021-04-12T03:12:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/australias-aged-care-system-needs-massive-investment-damning-royal-commission-report-finds\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:26:53","slug":"australias-aged-care-system-needs-massive-investment-damning-royal-commission-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/australias-aged-care-system-needs-massive-investment-damning-royal-commission-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s aged care system needs massive investment, damning royal commission report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>On 1st&nbsp;March 2021, Australia\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/agedcare.royalcommission.gov.au\/#:~:text=The%20Royal%20Commission%20into%20Aged%20Care%20Quality%20and%20Safety%20was,been%20appointed%20as%20Royal%20Commissioners.\"> Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety <\/a>tabled a Report: Care Dignity and Respect, which highlighted the declining quality of aged care for elderly Australians due to decreasing funding levels (AU$ 9.8bn cut over two decades) by successive governments.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The federal government responded by providing AU$452m to the sector but the question of generating funds still remains. Prime Minister Scott Morrison acknowledged the Commission&#8217;s call for a needs-based funding system. While Pagone, one of the commissioners suggested funding the entire system through a levy with funds set aside for aged care, another one recommended a financial contribution from users.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span><span>However, the report suggests that decisions on introducing new taxes and levies require political support and consensus. &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/agedcare.royalcommission.gov.au\/publications\/final-report\">Care, Dignity and Respect- Report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/mar\/01\/australias-aged-care-system-needs-massive-investment-royal-commission-report-finds\">here<\/a> the full article originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/international\">The Guardian<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biospectrumasia.com\/uploads\/articles\/file_20200519_83388_1xjm31n-16881.jpg\">Biospectrum Asia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1st&nbsp;March 2021, Australia\u2019s Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety tabled a Report: Care Dignity and Respect, which highlighted the declining quality of aged care for elderly Australians due to decreasing funding levels (AU$ 9.8bn cut over two decades) by successive governments. The federal government responded by providing AU$452m to the sector but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[116,128,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}