Four Corners gains almost 300,000 viewers for aged care special
Part one of a Four Corners special investigation into Australian aged care facilities achieved 755,000 metro viewers, making it the most watched program in its time slot.
The show, which this week investigated the treatment of the elderly in aged care homes ahead of the new Royal Commission inquiry, boosted Four Corners’ audience by 299,000 compared to last week.
Four Corners attracted more than 700,000 metro viewers for the first part of the series
The strength of the program helped ABC beat Seven, Ten and SBS from a main channel perspective. ABC’s main channel share was 15.2% last night, while Seven and Ten fell to shares of 14.1% and 13.7% respectively. SBS’ share was 4.2%. But Nine won the evening with a main channel share of 23.1%, OzTAM’s overnight figures show.
From a network perspective, Nine won the evening with 31.1% of the audience, beating Seven’s 24.2%. ABC Network and Network Ten tied on a 19.2% share of audience, while SBS Network finished on a 6.3% share. The highest multi-channel share came from 7mate, on 4.4%.
The most watched program of the evening was Nine’s The Block, which had an audience of 1.092m across the metro cities and led all key advertising demographics, 16-39s, 18-49s and 25-54s. It out-performed Ten’s Australian Survivor, which had a metro audience of 732,000, its highest episode of the year so far. Seven’s special, Meghan & Harry: The Next Chapter, didn’t crack 400,000 metro viewers, failing to sit within the top 20 shows.
In the later time slot, ABC’s Four Corners beat Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention, which had a metro audience of 744,000. Nine’s Doctor Doctor, which ran from 8:40pm, had an audience of 667,000.
The 6pm news battle was won by Seven last night, with 1.061m metro viewers tuning in, while Nine News sat on a metro audience of 994,000.
I have been doing aged care work as PCA/AIN for 24 years what I find is lacking is staff who understand and know how to treat people with dementia.
I got jobs for years on my experience one of my first jobs was a dementia specific ward that was on the 90s and I virtually had no training. I was 47 though do had life experience even though that was office work.
My last couple of care jobs were in retirement villages I did morning shifts and sleepovers. I didn’t have Cert III Aged Support so I got it only two Australians in the class. The teacher said I would like to go more in-depth with the subjects but with most people here there English is bad and they wouldn’t understand. They have answers to all questions so no one had to think about anything. Dementia isnt addresses enough and feel bad for all dementia patients in nursing homes. No point saying more nurses needed it’s the carers who do bulk of the work. Nurses give medication and write reports.
The last couple of nursing homes I’ve been in visiting people or working enough staff – staff do their job but most from other countries and you can tell don’t really care about residents.
I now look after a woman on her own home as didn’t want to work in a nursing home and I’m keeping her out of a nursing home. I said to my sisters if I ever need a nursing home shoot me
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I had a sister in nursing home in QLD. My sister had schizophrenia and after 2 1/2 years she died of liver and kidney failure . She was not happy there and would scream a lot, wanted to go home, so they would medicate her to keep her quiet. I had staff telling me that they have not enough staff to care for residence. When I called to speak to my sister, very often they didn’t answer tha phone. I have complained to a number organizations for seniors and nothing was done, I would never put my self in any aged care place.
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Who do you think you are …?
Making us look like shit,!!
I dont know anyone on our team that would act like that.. Absolutey heartbreaking for us that care xx!!
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