Superior Care Group is ceasing dementia care services. There are multiple factors:
- Increased risk to residents due to pressure on hospitals to place residents with dangerous behaviours in permanent residential care, which is unsafe for other residents and staff;
- Security of tenure is problematic when hospitals and families misrepresent the nature of a resident’s behaviours, and following grant of a permanent placement, the process to require a resident to leave is onerous.
- The pool of suitable dementia residents is falling due to the expansion of home care in caring for people with mild dementia, placing pressure on occupancy levels;
- The declining business viability of committing rooms to dementia care when the Commonwealth Government does not pay for vacant bed days, whilst any agreement with the Queensland Government for subcontracted places would pay for all vacant bed days;
- The increased complexity, regulation and documentation of care delivery for dementia residents, resulting in increased risk of non-compliance;
- The inadequate AN-ACC funding level for dementia residents considering the above risk factors.
