Aged Care Watch is an online resource provided by the United Workers Union that allows aged care workers, residents, and family members to report and visually represent the thousands of understaffing and workload issues in aged care facilities across Australia.
People reporting can choose by suburb or facility, and lodge a report about an unfilled shift, lack of care hours, and other details. Their report shows up as a red dot on a map of Australia. By clicking through, readers can see which care facility has been reported, by whom, and what problems were found there.
The website says the reporting tool raises community awareness and helps put real pressure on decision makers to fund more care-time.
There are currently almost 9000 reports visualised on the map.
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