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There is widespread anger over the fact that most aged-care workers are yet to be vaccinated, and they are again being compelled to work at multiple facilities to make ends meet.
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Shannon Ruddock’s 81-year-old father’s last weeks of life were spent in such pain in a Sydney aged care facility that he begged to be thrown under a bus.
Her father, Vincent Paranthoiene, was shuffled between a Sydney hospital and an aged care facility whose staff were ill-equipped to treat his pain before he died in late 2017. That made Ms Ruddock determined to campaign for aged care residents to have a “good death”, and for dignity at the end of their lives.
The Aged Care Royal Commission’s final report calls on the government to recognise that palliative care and end-of-life care, like dementia care, is a “core business” for aged-care providers.
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