National Aged Care Survey 2019 - Final Report
This report presents the results of the 2019 ANMF National Aged Care Survey of 2,775 aged care sector staff. The study follows up on the previous 2016 National Aged Care Survey of staff and community members and identifies and examines key contemporary issues regarding participants’ concerns and experiences with the Australian aged care system. In the broader context of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) and its members’ concerns with the state of the Australian aged care sector, the study had the objective of examining current concerns in aged care, adequacy of staffing levels and skills mix, adequacy of care delivery in residential aged care facilities, suggested improvements necessary of aged care, and voting intentions relating to aged care.
- National Aged Care Survey - Final Report
- National Aged Care Survey - Executive Summary and Key Messages
National Aged Care Survey 2019 - Community Member Companion Report
This companion report accompanies the 2019 National Aged Care Survey report and presents the results of the 2019 ANMF National Aged Care Survey of 354 community members.
- National Aged Care Survey - Community Member Companion Report
- National Aged Care Survey - Community Member Companion Report - Executive Summary and Key Messages
Tax Avoidance by For-Profit Aged Care Companies: Profit Shifting on Public Funds
The report examining tax avoidance in the rapidly-growing aged care sector was prepared by Jason Ward from the Tax Justice Network, on behalf of the ANMF. Australia’s top six aged care providers, some with foreign ownership, posted enormous profits whilst taking advantage of AUD $2.17 billion in Australian taxpayer funded subsidies, using various loopholes, corporate structures and discretionary trusts to avoid paying their fair share of tax.
All in the Family: Tax and Financial Practices of Australia's Largest Family Owned Aged Care Companies
A Tax Justice Network – Australia and Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability & Research (CICTAR) Report prepared by Jason Ward examining Australia’s six largest family-owned aged care companies.
National Aged Care Staffing and Skills Mix Project Report
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has released the National Aged Care Staffing and Skills Mix Project report. The project is the first of its kind in Australia and has collected evidence relating to the need for a staffing methodology that considers both staffing levels (the right number) and skills mix (the right qualification) for residential aged care.
Financial and Cost Benefit Implications of the Recommendations of the National Aged Care Staffing and Skills Mix Final Report
This report quantifies the net direct and indirect implications of implementing the recommendations of the ANMF National Aged Care Staffing and Skills Mix report released in 2016.
National Aged Care Survey (2016 Report)
Over the last decade Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) members have been campaigning for improvements in aged care with increasing intensity in an attempt to ensure quality care for residents and decent conditions for those working in aged care. But despite multiple reviews, inquiries and investigations no real improvements have been forthcoming.
After the Government proposed more cuts, as part of the If you don’t care, we can’t care Federal Election campaign we ran a survey which explored how the funding cuts are, or would, impact the delivery of care in residential care facilities across the States and Territories, with the aim of gathering information to place aged care as a key election issue and gain the attention of voters, and thus, politicians.
The overwhelming theme to emerge from both the aged care worker and community group responses to the ANMF’s aged care survey was the participants’ belief that the elderly deserve much better care than they are currently receiving.
What do your penalty rates mean to you?
The ANMF conducted a survey of members investigating what penalty rates mean to them, the level of compensation penalty rates provide for working shift work and how shift work affects the lives of nurses and midwives.