Deprescribing Psychotropic Medications in Aged Care Facilities: The Potential Role of Family Members

Sleep problems are frequently witnessed in aged care facilities with a large proportion going undetected. Multiple factors are known to contribute many abnormal sleep/wake patterns for residents. A systematic review conducted by Haesler (2004) provided a guide to the direction of future research into sleep in older adults residing in care facilities. This chapter evaluates the effectiveness of implementing the following evidence based recommendation from Haesler (2004): Wrist actigraphy currently represents the most accurate objective sleep assessment tool for use in the population of interest. Factor analysis was utilized to study the patterns of relationship among many dependent variables, with the goal of discovering something about the nature of the independent variables that affect them. Wrist actigraphy showed a disparity between the actual bed time and wake time. One clear difference detected using the device was the increased detection of sleep during the day.

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Mental Modelling Digital Aged Care and Service Management

Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics - Enterprise Information Systems and the Digitalization of Business Functions ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2382-6.ch001 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Margee Hume ◽

Paul Johnston

Keyword(s):

Mental Model ◽

Service Management ◽

Aged Care ◽

Care Providers ◽

Knowledge Capture ◽

Care Facilities ◽

Key Players ◽

Aged Care Facilities ◽

Advance Knowledge

Aged care is projected to be the fastest-growing sector within health and community care industries with digital aged care growing in interest. Strengthening understanding of delivery and technology will assist in better delivery and reach more elderly in need through improved service delivery. In this we examine advance recent discourse on the role of knowledge management (KM) in digital aged care with the view to assist delivery of aged care. We advance knowledge by offering a unique view of KM from the perspective of 28 aged care stakeholders through in-depth interviewing and mental model pictorials. We offer advances in understanding for digital aged care and suggest practices for knowledge capture and management for aged care providers. We culminate the discussion by offering a digital agenda for aged care facilities and advance the discourse in this sector. Specifically reflections are offered for leadership and the consideration of the key players and links that should be developed in comprehensively capturing and disseminating knowledge digitally in the sector.

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Prescribing psychotropic medications in residential aged care facilities

The Medical Journal of Australia ◽

10.5694/mja2.50562 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 212 (7) ◽

pp. 304-305

Author(s):

Gerard J Byrne

Keyword(s):

Aged Care ◽

Psychotropic Medications ◽

Residential Aged Care ◽

Care Facilities ◽

Aged Care Facilities ◽

Residential Aged Care Facilities

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The role of cognitive impairment in pain care in the emergency department for patients from residential aged care facilities: a retrospective, case-control study

Australasian Emergency Care ◽

10.1016/j.auec.2019.09.003 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 114-118

Author(s):

Minyan Chen ◽

James A. Hughes

Keyword(s):

Case Control Study ◽

Aged Care ◽

Residential Aged Care ◽

Retrospective Case ◽

Care Facilities ◽

Aged Care Facilities ◽

Residential Aged Care Facilities ◽

Pain Care ◽

Control Study

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Residents with mild cognitive decline and family members report health students ‘enhance capacity of care’ and bring ‘a new breath of life’ in two aged care facilities in T asmania

Health Expectations ◽

10.1111/hex.12236 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 18 (6) ◽

pp. 1927-1940 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Kate‐Ellen J. Elliott ◽

Michael J. Annear ◽

Erica J. Bell ◽

Andrew J. Palmer ◽

Andrew L. Robinson

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Decline ◽

Family Members ◽

Aged Care ◽

Care Facilities ◽

Aged Care Facilities

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Regulation and Voice in Residential Aged Care in New Zealand

Labour Employment and Work in New Zealand ◽

10.26686/lew.v0i0.1999 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Katherine Ravenswood

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

National Level ◽

Aged Care ◽

Employee Voice ◽

Residential Aged Care ◽

Employment Conditions ◽

Care Facilities ◽

Aged Care Facilities ◽

Residential Aged Care Facilities

This paper seeks to explain why employment conditions have persistently remained low in this sector. It does this through examining employee voice (representative and direct) in residential aged care. This paper presents findings on the role of employee voice in four case studies of four New Zealand residential aged care facilities. It examines voice at both the organisational and national level and identifies key barriers to improved conditions for employees in residential aged care.

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