Researchers from Sydney’s UTS Centre for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care have found that strong drugs used to treat Delirium in elderly patients are not be effective and may even be harmful to patients. Delirium is a condition that occurs suddenly, causing acute confusion, inattention and an altered conscious state, typically is only lasts for a...
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Aged care staff and organisations are faced with a number of challenges to providing consumer choice and control. While delivering our Resident at the Centre of Care (RCC) Program, which trains staff to implement Consumer Directed Care (CDC), we learned much about the barriers to delivering CDC in residential aged care. Residents may fear being...
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South Australian researchers have investigated ‘superbugs’ and suggested that overprescribing of antibiotics could put vulnerable older Australians at risk of later infection.
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