Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/05/australia-aged-care-assessment-tool-designer-scared-use
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Well, if the assessment tool she made was created with the explicit intention that there would be room for notes and it could be overridden if necessary, and those aspects were removed to save cash by denying necessary care to the elderly, it’s not really the tool she made anymore. If I make a hammer, give it to someone, and they take off the head, I don’t need to feel responsible for it not working anymore.
Should she have expected this of the government? Maybe? But the responsibility has to primarily lay with the people who are using parts of her tool to abuse and neglect the elderly.