Royal Commission hearings on aged care are likely to occur in Tasmania in the second half of this year.
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Hearings will place in each Australian capital city and regional areas and locations and dates will be announced with the next six weeks, a spokeswoman said.
The Council on the Aging Tasmanian division will organise a public forum in March to encourage people to make their own submissions to the inquiry.
Operations manager Debra Lewis said COTA Tasmania were still in the process on compiling its own submission but wanted to hold a forum in order to instruct people on how they could become involved in the inquiry themselves and support people to tell their story.
Submissions will be accepted until the end of June.
The Royal Commission on Aged Care Quality and Safety started last week.
Federal Health Department Secretary Glenys Beauchamp told an Adelaide hearing this week there were 3773 reportable assaults in Australian nursing homes last financial year.
It was also revealed at Tuesday's hearing more than half of Australia’s aged care workers had no dementia training despite people with the disease making up the majority of nursing home residents.
It is estimated that more than 436,000 Australians live with dementia with that number expected to reach 1.1 million by 2056.
There is concern that there will be 83,500 extra places needed in aged-care facilities within a decade which is more than 50,000 of new places provided over the past 10 years.
The Royal Commission has received more than 5000 submissions to its inquiry and is due to provide an interim report in October.