Even before COVID-19 hit, the failings of Australia’s aged care system had already been laid bare when the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality And Safety’s Interim Report was released last year.Commissioners Richard Tracey AM, RFD, QC and Lynelle Briggs’ AO investigation into Australia’s aged care system led them to describe the aged care system as “a shocking tale of neglect.”“The neglect that we have found in this Royal Commission, to date, is far from the best that can be done.
Rather, it is a sad and shocking system that diminishes Australia as a nation.”Entitled Neglect, the Interim Report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, which was tabled in the Australian Parliament on October 31, 2019 found that a.