Separation from residential aged care facilities
Examining the role of information exchange in residential aged care work practices-a survey of residential aged care facilities
... Considerably more research is required to understand when and what benefits mobile technologies deliver within healthcare settings [28]. Communication with external providers was found to be cumbersome with a high ...
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Social security Residential aged care Home care Residential aged care
... all care has been taken to ensure the information is correct, Accurium does not take any responsibility for any error or omission and is not liable for any loss arising from reliance on this information, ...
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A retrospective review of pain management in Tasmanian residential aged care facilities
... As noted previously, the frequency of use of non-pharmacological management strategies has been poorly documented 31 in the literature with most studies reviewing analgesic use alone. This is despite a number of ...
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Antimicrobial stewardship in residential aged care facilities: need and readiness assessment
... pharmacists from 12 RACFs were ...education, aged-care specific antibiotic guidelines and regular antibiotic surveillance deemed most useful and ...
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Costs of potentially inappropriate medication use in residential aged care facilities
... of residential care had a lower risk of incurring any costs due to PIMs over the one year period compared to those living in standard models of ...of residential care have not been previously ...
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Texture-modified food and fluids in dementia and residential aged care facilities
... Dovepress Evidence for texture-modified food and fluids in dementia with variation in level of function and proportion of people with dementia. The studies identified by this review suggest that in people with dementia, ...
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Movement from hospital to residential aged care
... hospital separation and RAC entry event dates and ...Results from that work identified a constrained version of the linkage strategy as the most appropriate for national analyses (AIHW: Karmel & Rosman 2007 ...
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing in older patients discharged from acute care hospitals to residential aged care facilities
... derived from expert reports or published ...status from established prescribing tools may help to explain the lack of clinical benefit from algorithm-based medication ...
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Quality Dementia Care Standards: A Guide to Practice for Managers in Residential Aged Care Facilities
... clear from focus groups that care managers wanted guidance linked to the aged care ...important from the perspective of consumers and no one has argued that there are things in this ...
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Organisational Culture in Residential Aged Care Facilities: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study
... acute care sector and little is known regarding how residential care facilities identify and implement strategies to improve ...studies from other ...
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The Community Hub: a proposal to change the role of Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs)
... The culture of the RACF focuses on disease and the maintenance of comfort, which encourages resident inactivity and both physical and social decline. A pervasive con- cern about ‘duty of care’ induces an anxiety ...
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Fees for Residential Aged Care
... of Aged Care Reviews Pty Ltd t/a Aged Care Decisions and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property ...works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, ...
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Depression in residential aged care
... Data from the Psychogeriatric Assessment Scales–Cognitive Impairment Scale (PAS–CIS) indicated that for nearly 40% of residents for whom no CSD assessment was undertaken, it may have been difficult to carry out a ...
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Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly
... living facilities from a variety of settings including private homes, nursing facilities, or retirement/independent living ...living facilities after having lived in their private home or ...
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Lived experiences and the design implications for living and dying with dementia in residential aged care facilities
... of care are widely debated in health-related academic circles, and in-depth analysis is beyond the scope of an architectural ...providing care, which is questioned in relation to changing theories of ...
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Roles for pharmacists in improving the quality use of psychotropic medicines in residential aged care facilities
... use and offers considerable potential, to date, the CNS drug model has not been utilised to date to assess CNS exposure in the residential aged care setting. 8.3.4 The application of multiple ...
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A qualitative study exploring issues related to medication management in residential aged care facilities
... in facilities housing the aging ...cost-effective care for patients based on their ...health care institutions, issuance of a prescription by a doctor as well as documentation of any procedure ...
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Geriatrician interventions on medication prescribing for frail older people in residential aged care facilities
... in residential care facilities was unsuccessful in establishing changes in the number of ...Studies from inpatient settings suggest that the addition of a pharmacist to health care ...
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Medication incident reporting in residential aged care facilities: Limitations and risks to residents’ safety
... a care staff mem- ber at Site A: “Most common are just the committing ...back from the ...by care staff at site C “If the medications haven’t been popped out from the pack, I can find out that ...
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Roles for pharmacists in improving the quality use of psychotropic medicines in residential aged care facilities
... The major psychotropic drug classes are antipsychotics, antidepressants and anxiolytic/hypnotics. Professional guidelines advise that these agents should only be prescribed to manage behavioural and psychological ...
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