New research suggests that the support patients receive after being restrained can affect how safe they feel and whether they regain trust in their care.
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Research found that mental health hospitals frequently overlook family carers’ expertise, missing an opportunity to improve patient safety.
Despite decades of concern, restrictive practices remain common. A compassion-based approach could help change that.
Sedative medications and restraint belts are too often given to aged care residents with dementia to stop them wandering, prevent falls, or manage “difficult” behaviour.
There are systemic problems with the way mainstream schooling treats students with disabilities. A Royal Commission would shed light on these issues and give us a way forward to a more equal future.
New regulations to stop the use of physical restraint on the elderly recognise a serious problem in our aged care system. But in order to really fix this issue, we need to address what’s causing it.
Older people in nursing homes or aged care facilities are often locked up “for their own safety”, which new research says isn’t usually needed.
What was shown on Four Corners was cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment – if not torture.
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Professor, Aged Care Medical Research Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate and Research Fellow at the Monash Health [Health and Social Care Unit], Monash University
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Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Lecturer specialising in Violence, Abuse and Mental Health, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Neuro Mental Health, The University of Queensland