Residential Aged Care

Residential Aged Care Communiqué Volume 20 Issue 1 February 2025

This edition examines how the workforce issues impact resident safety and quality of care through three separate cases.

We present two cases highlighting the poorer outcomes that can occur for older persons following trauma.

We present two cases highlighting the poorer outcomes that can occur for older persons following trauma.

Palliative care involving terminal sedation of a resident in aged care.

A resident is administered medication to which he has a known allergy leads to review of practice and systems of care.

The common underlying factor in both cases was ‘timeliness of care’.

Thunderstorm asthma events can trigger severe asthma symptoms in susceptible individuals and potentially rapidly overwhelm health services.

The Communiqués

A resident is administered medication to which he has a known allergy leading to death prompting a review of practice and systems of care.

The Communiqués

This edition examines how the workforce issues impact resident safety and quality of care through three separate cases.

The Communiqués