Australia's Aged Care Sector Loses 65,000 Workers Every Year, Report Finds

MELBOURNE, Australia - July 15, 2022 - PRLog -- Australia's aged-care sector is short of 35,000 laborers, with around 18,000 staff members having left the business since August, a new report has revealed.

The report from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia features a staffing crisis in Australia's aged-care sector, which has been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The report has found the sector is likely losing around 65,000 workers each year, with one more 8000 workers desperately required to meet the international best practice standards of aged-care residents.

Notwithstanding, Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA) in-between time CEO Paul Sadler has said his team of more than 800 workers are required.

We accept it could be closer to 20,000, he said. "The CEDA report features the requirement for urgent action to guarantee more seasoned Australians don't pass up care and support."

The aged-care workforce was already under significant pressure with staff deficiencies, low pay, and poor working conditions, before the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the issues, the report subtleties.

For a  workforce that was already burnt out prior to COVID-19, this has been the breaking point for many, it reads. A survey by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation recently found one out of five workers intended to leave their job in the following year.

Right around two of every five planned to leave in the next one to five years.

Sadler said the federal government would have difficulty achieving its aged care policy priorities of Registered Nurses in aged care homes 24/7 and minimum care minutes without prompt activity.

Funding is a key issue. We welcome the government's commitment to fund a pay increase for Aged Care workers arising from the Fair Work Commission work value case due later this year or right on time one year from now.

The government is expected to announce the indexation figure for 2022-23 at some point this week, which will show how much subsidies paid to suppliers to give Certificate 3 in Aged Care (https://jti.edu.au/individual-support-aged-care.php) will increase in the approaching year.

Sadler said ACCPA was working with the government to examine ways to make working in aged care more appealing, including higher pay, further developed preparation, and better working conditions.

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