Privatisation and Aged Care --- Nursing homes in Australia are increasingly run for profit by large, often listed companies, and large, well-off not-for profit organisations, and are regulated by a number of government bodies. However, "No one entity is responsible for reducing harm by improving practice", Professor Ibrahim's study noted. Australia's nursing homes are increasingly deadly places for their residents, with a 400 per cent increase in preventable deaths over the past decade despite billions of dollars of federal and private money being spent on them.
Falls, choking and suicide were the main causes of preventable deaths, according to a new study by Monash University researcher Joe Ibrahim, in a trend he says shows we are "not looking hard enough" for ways to reduce the risks for elderly Australians. Professor Ibrahim, who studied Coroner's Court records of more than 23,000 cases of deaths in aged care, palliative care or residential care between 2000 and 2013, wrote that preventable deaths had quadrupled from 1.2 per 1000 admissions to 5.3 per 1000. More: http://www.smh.com.au/national/aged-care-preventable-nursing-home-deaths-surge-20170526-gwdx2q.html
Falls, choking and suicide were the main causes of preventable deaths, according to a new study by Monash University researcher Joe Ibrahim, in a trend he says shows we are "not looking hard enough" for ways to reduce the risks for elderly Australians. Professor Ibrahim, who studied Coroner's Court records of more than 23,000 cases of deaths in aged care, palliative care or residential care between 2000 and 2013, wrote that preventable deaths had quadrupled from 1.2 per 1000 admissions to 5.3 per 1000. More: http://www.smh.com.au/national/aged-care-preventable-nursing-home-deaths-surge-20170526-gwdx2q.html
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