The royal commission into aged care seems to have been a great waste of taxpayers money, I have yet to hear of or see any changes that will make a positive change to the care of residents living in aged care facilities. Unless there is a huge increase in required staff to patient ratios there will be no improvement in the care given, staff don’t have the time to spend giving anything but the most basic, rushed, required care that residents need. Putting a registered nurse into all facilities won’t improve care levels, it might reduce them as less hands on staff may be employed due to the cost of wages for a registered nurse. Even the so called “not for profit” facilities care more about their annual profit margin than providing anything above the most basic care, nutrition, lifestyle than they have to, to meet the government criteria to keep their funding. I live in a reasonably large town in a country area and have been told by friends working in aged care that local facilities have trouble getting agency staff now, as they don’t want to travel out of the major city areas to work anymore. This means these facilities are always working short staffed and the residents care levels have deteriorated even further than they were. Where is the government now? I guarantee they aren’t even aware of what is happening in aged care outside the city areas and I don’t believe they care enough to find out. I doubt they even care too much if any of the royal commissions recommendations are put into place.