Time to Renew Focus on Accreditation?
Damaging Press Reports Continue in QLD Time to Renew Focus on Accreditation? (Heffernan, R. Buyback is Unfair, Says Son Woman, 98, Offered Half Price for Retirement Unit, The Sunday Mail, June 08, 2008, p. 42) and (Sweetman, T. Aged Care Needs a Dose of Empathy,The Courier Mail, June 07, 2008,...
Negative press reports continue to tar the industry's reputation this week.
A follow-up on last week's Sunday Mail article aired reader responses to it: Buyer beware is so true! The name of the game is profit! as well as complaints of profiteering at a Milstern Retirement Services home in Torquay, Victoria.
Adding fuel to this growing fire, Tony Sweetman wrote in The Courier Mail of his aunt being dudded by a Queensland retirement village going so far as to declare: "Mercifully, death intervened before she had to face up to her concerns."
Increased regulation appears likely unless the industry gets in first. The RVA / ACQ accreditation program needs to be accelerated as a short-term action.
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Damaging Press Reports Continue in QLD Time to Renew Focus on Accreditation? (Heffernan, R. Buyback is Unfair, Says Son Woman, 98, Offered Half Price for Retirement Unit, The Sunday Mail, June 08, 2008, p. 42) and (Sweetman, T. Aged Care Needs a Dose of Empathy, The Courier Mail, June 07, 2008, p. 65)
