Aged care staff told to leave residents in soggy pads

By Anna Patty Workplace Editor
October 15 2017 - 12:30pm
Meryl Andrews' father is in a nursing home and she is speaking out about how understaffed and poorly paid aged care nursing staff and carers are. Picture: Chris Hopkins
Meryl Andrews' father is in a nursing home and she is speaking out about how understaffed and poorly paid aged care nursing staff and carers are. Picture: Chris Hopkins

If the incontinence pads are half wet, they stay on. This is the instruction that aged care worker Esther Priol says she and her colleagues have been directed to follow - even when elderly nursing home residents ask to be changed.

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