According to the National Council on Aging (NCOA), as many as 5 million older Americans are abused each year, and many of them live in nursing homes. Nursing homes use […] ...
A new Cochrane review finds that the use of physical restraints on care home residents can be reduced without increasing the risk of falls, when frontline care staff are empowered by supportive ...
The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...
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Opinion: Lack of restraint use awareness causing harm in Saskatchewan
The issue we’re facing is a lack of awareness. Our lack of awareness is causing harm to the people we are caring with, ...
An audit has revealed an Adelaide aged care facility was inappropriately using restraints on patients, raising the question of whether the state government has learned from the Oakden aged care ...
A South Australian government aged care home, which looks after 23 people with dementia or complex disabilities, ...
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