Aromatherapy has be shown to be beneficial for people in palliative care and their families. Learn more about how essential oils and massage can help people.
Nurses should be on site in aged care homes at all times and aged care homes should have mandatory staff ratios, a NSW state government inquiry has found.
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Allied health services have been cut in aged care in recent years due to a lack of funding. The royal commission has outlined plans to ensure recipients of aged care services receive dental health, rehab, advice about diet, and more, in order to maximise their quality of life.
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It seems that palliative care patients could be the ones to suffer under the Department of Health’s crackdown on doctors prescribing opiates. The Department’s heightened scrutiny of opioid prescribing has resulted in some doctors stopping prescribing opioids for patients in palliative care, and others have cut back visiting patients in palliative care. Department’s letter to nearly 5,000 GPs...
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