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Letter – CEOs – Update on aged care assessment – February 2020 Communication fact sheet – Streamlined Assessment Aged Care – Feb 2020

After publishing my article Bullying and Abuse among aged care advocates must stop I became a target of abuse.

Heather Mansell Brown claimed the posts in my article were doctored. They were not. In fact these posts were merely a taste of the abuse that Heather and her cabal of disaffected women inflicted on a small community in Southern Queensland. This document contains many abusive posts from Heather and those who support her. Sadly, there are many, many more.

Jane Hiliary Seaholme claimed I lied in the account of the personal abuse she raged against me. This document provides evidence of Jane’s abusive Emails and Tweets verbatim and my responses to her puerile abuse.

Heather and Jane continue their ongoing abuse towards providers, government and advocates with whom they disagree. They have both created a social media echo chamber – Heather on Facebook; Jane on Twitter. These echo chambers, inhabited by a small number of the usual suspects, are toxic places to visit.

Rather than abuse people on social media, it has been suggested that these women could actually help older people by volunteering in an aged care home.

Opinion Piece

If amendments had gone through the Senate, they would have been a game changer for the aged care sector. They would have improved transparency and accountability around finances, staffing ratios and complaints in aged care homes.

Michael West

The title of this year’s Victorian Healthcare Week Great Debate was: Do We Need Mandated Staffing Ratios in Aged Care? Are we better off focusing on the quality outcomes for older Australians rather than mandated staffing ratios?

I was 2nd speaker on the negative side.

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