Australia’s aged-care industry is hurtling towards a “worst-case scenario” as growing staff shortages threaten to derail efforts to drastically improve care standards, a new report has warned.
The Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA) estimated on Tuesday that a critical shortfall of aged-care workers has more than doubled over the past nine months, soaring from 17,000 workers in August to an estimated 30,000 to 35,000 in 2022.
