Any complaints made to Government Departments would be fucked over and only 20% of complaints about aged health care made to the Commonwealth Ombudsman are investigated with most of them being fucked over.
Section 15 of the Ombudsmans requires the Commonwealth Ombudsman to report systemic corrupt conduct or severe abuse to the relevant minister but this is very rarely done because the skanks at the Commonwealth Ombudsman protect the Government Departments.After the Commonwealth Ombudsman Allan Asher ripped his skirt off and resigned, the Deputy Ombudsman the Fat skank Alison Larkins acted in this position . This scrubber had been in Aged Health care and she would have been aware of the atrocious conditions though failed to recommend that improvements be made.
The present Ombudsman Colin Neave has been the Banking Industry Ombudsman and has brought with him the same systemic corrupt conduct he was involved in when he was the banking industry Ombudsman.....
Look at the Commonwealth Ombudsmans statistics!!!!
Mistreated nursing home residents 'better off in a concentration camp'
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Traumatised relatives have raised shocking claims that their loved ones were left to die unnecessarily or in great pain because of a critical lack of staff and training in nursing homes.
The ABC's Lateline program has spoken to many people about their loved ones' experiences in nursing homes across Australia.Their complaints include relatives being left in faeces and urine, rough treatment, poor nutrition, inadequate pain relief, verbal abuse, and untreated broken bones and infections.
And one woman has told the ABC that her grandmother, who survived Nazi concentration camps, believes her experiences in aged care are worse than her wartime ordeal.
Relative details litany of abuse, neglect by untrained staff
Jane Green's mother Margaret McEvoy, a former nurse and foster carer, died last year after spending time in a Victorian nursing home.Ms Green says over-worked and under-trained staff were not giving medication properly and were leaving Ms McEvoy to wet herself because no-one was available to take her to the toilet.
Ms Green says her mother also complained of being constantly hungry, and suffering abuse by staff members.
"The staff member called her a spoilt brat and a princess and [said] that she always wanted to get her own way," Ms Green told Lateline.
"She became very shut down ... it was like seeing someone who had the stuffing knocked out of them.
"When I would leave on Friday nights, she would look at me and just say to me 'I'm all right', and I knew she was just trying to be brave."
Ms Green says her mother was in great pain, but staff believed she was simply attention-seeking.
"I witnessed mum screaming in front of them and they still did not see that as being pain," she told Lateline.
For five days, staff tried to make Ms McEvoy walk. In fact, she had an undiagnosed broken thigh bone, a raging infection, and severe dehydration.
Ms Green, who is also a nurse, had to fight to get her mother taken to hospital, where she was immediately put into palliative care. She died six weeks later.
Other families back up abuse claims at the same nursing home
When I would leave on Friday nights, she would look at me and just say to me 'I'm all right', and I knew she was just trying to be brave.Jane Green
Ms Green has since spoken to a former staff member and other families with relatives in the same nursing home.
They told her other elderly residents were also abused.
One incapacitated man had urine-soaked sheets thrown at him, while a woman was left crying out with abdominal pain. She later died with a gangrenous gall bladder.
Senator Jacinta Collins, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, says the stories of mistreatment are very concerning.
"Concerns about shortages and workforce issues are very important matters as well," she told Lateline.
"They informed the Government's recent response, the legislation that went through to the Senate in the last sitting week, for living longer, living better, because we know we need to increase the training, we know we need to establish a more stable workforce in aged care, and we know that there are limited numbers of specialists.
"This is why the Labor government has a 10-year plan to improve the supply of services to meet the future demand. We've had shortages in aged care in Australia for way too long."
Wartime survivor 'better off in a concentration camp'
The shocking stories from the Victorian nursing home are not uncommon.Mardi Walker's 91-year-old grandmother Paula Javurek was in a New South Wales nursing home that was supposed to deliver high care.
The nurse and health care lecturer was horrified when she found her grandmother with exposed raw ear cartilage due to lack of turning, and one of her arms immobilised after staff botched injections.
"They would just keep injecting into the same spot and she would scream. My mother said it was horrific, because she would scream," Ms Walker said.
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