Four-in-ten workers plan to leave the aged care sector within five years, and nine-in-ten residential aged care and home care workers are too stretched to offer appropriate support to residents and clients, according to the largest ever survey of the sector’s workforce – conducted by United Workers & the HSU.
Responses from 5,000 workers reveal a vital workforce straining under extreme pressures of crushing workloads, increasingly complex care needs, and chronic under-staffing.
Our Aged Care sector is in crisis. Widespread understaffing, a lack of funding & failure to provide adequate support for workers in the sector. ‘Our turn to care’ supports quality care and a dignified life for all older Australians. We are family members, older Australians, and workers in aged care and we are campaigning to get Scott Morrison to increase aged care funding and make it reliable.