Sep 8
Posted by Sabina Bhate in Canadian Health Services, Competence and Capacity, Elder Care | Comments off
CBC- 07 September, 2010
Author: Kathy Tomlinson
“An elderly B.C. man is upset after a provincial health authority stripped him and his wife of their legal and financial rights when he complained repeatedly about his wife’s care in the local hospital.”
Read article here.
Aug 26
Posted by Nancy Lentz in Elder Care, New Legislation, Tobacco | Comments off
ABC News, AP, 26 August 2010
“The government of Cuba will stop funding heavily-subsidised cigarettes for its senior citizens, as president Raul Castro works to jump-start the island’s sputtering economy. Until now, Cubans over the age of 55 could claim up to 80 cigarettes a month for less than 34 cents. But beginning next month, some 2.5 million Cubans will no longer will get their cigarettes as part of the country’s ration program, the government announced. “This is a blow for the elderly like me,” 82-year-old Esperanza Rodriguez said. “It was like a little bit of money they gave us each month.”"
Find article here.
Aug 23
Posted by Edwina Light in Case Law, Elder Care, Substitute Decision-Making, Western Australian Health Services | Comments off
Health Alert, DLA Phillips Fox, 23 August 2010
“The represented person had advanced dementia and was a resident in a nursing home. Her daughter had been appointed as her guardian. The daughter had been banned from the nursing home where her mother lived and the WA Administrative Tribunal found that the relationship between the daughter and the nursing home had completely broken down. The tribunal found that the daughter could not perform her function as an objective guardian to consent to medical treatment on her mother’s behalf. The Tribunal appointed the Public Advocate as an independent Guardian.”
Find full case summary and link to decision here.
Aug 11
Posted by Edwina Light in Accidents, Death, Disability, Elder Care | Comments off
Brain Injury Australia, media statement, 9 August 2010
“Falls – not motor vehicle accidents, not assaults – are now the leading cause of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Australia, accounting for more than 2 in every 5 hospital admissions. It’s due to the ageing of our population. Every year, thousands of older Australians suffer a TBI from a fall. Many will die. Some will survive but with profound and permanent disability. And because it is their brain that is injured they will be affected not only physically but also in the way they think, feel and behave. Yet head injuries in older people are often overlooked.”
Find statement and details of Brain Injury Awareness Week here.
Aug 11
Posted by Edwina Light in Elder Care, Resource Allocation | Comments off
Alzheimer’s Australia, media statement, 6 August 2010
“An estimated 279,000 older Australians will be without a residential care place or community care package by 2050, according to a new report from Access Economics, released today by Alzheimer’s Australia. The CEO of Alzheimer’s Australia, Glenn Rees, said the report, Caring Places, projects that current Government policy would result in a dramatic undersupply of residential and community aged care places unless the planning of aged care takes into account the increasing numbers of those over 85 years and the growth in the number of people with dementia.”
Find statement and report here.
Jul 27
Posted by Edwina Light in Case Law, Elder Care, Health Law, Regulatory Compliance | Comments off
AATA decision, 20 July 2010
“CATCHWORDS: HEALTH & AGED CARE – Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency Ltd – support contact visit by agency – decision to revoke approval under Part 2.1 of the Aged Care Act 1997 (Cth) – satisfied that expected outcome Item 2.10 “Nutrition and hydration” achieved – in application 2009/1964 the Tribunal sets aside the decision – decision not to wholly lift sanctions imposed – in application 2009/2765 no decision necessary”
Find decision here.
Jul 25
Posted by Lisa Csillag in Elder Care, Global and International Health, UK Health Services | Comments off
BMJ 2010;341:c3901
Author: Lynn Eaton
“England’s health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has confirmed that the coalition government plans to hold a commission on the funding of care and support for elderly and disabled people. The commission, first announced in the coalition’s programme for government in May, will be asked to report in a year. It will include the thorny issue of whether people should be forced to sell their homes to pay for their care. But the exact details of the commission’s remit and membership have yet to be finalised, to the concern of campaigners.”
Find article here.
Jul 25
Posted by Nancy Lentz in Elder Care, Health Law, Illegal drug use | Comments off
New York Times, By Dan Frosch, 23 July 2010
“A department directive, expected to take effect next week, resolves the conflict in veterans facilities between federal law, which outlaws marijuana, and the 14 states that allow medicinal use of the drug, effectively deferring to the states. The policy will not permit department doctors to prescribe marijuana. But it will address the concern of many patients who use the drug that they could lose access to their prescription pain medication if caught.”
Find article here.
Jul 24
Posted by Nancy Lentz in Elder Care, Health Services, Nutrition | Comments off
SMH, By Amy Corderoy, 24 July 2010
“Hospitals will be forced to show they are preventing malnutrition in their patients or else lose their accreditation after continuing concerns about how vulnerable patients are fed. Elderly patients who stay are hospitalised for long periods are dying from malnutrition because hospitals do not currently consider food part of clinical care, said Claire Hewat, the chief executive of the Dietitians Association of Australia.”
Find article here.
Jul 21
Posted by Edwina Light in Chronic Disease, Disability, Elder Care, Electronic Medical Records, Indigenous Health, Insurance, Medical Boards and Associations, Mental Illness, National Health Services, Preventative care, Regulatory Compliance, Resource Allocation | Comments off
Australian Medical Association, 21 July 2010
“Elections are about choices. The type of health system we want is one of those crucial decisions. In an ideal world, something as important as health care would be above party politics. But it isn’t. In this election, all political parties cannot afford to give scant regard to the health care of the Australian population. …In this document, the AMA has detailed wide-ranging policies that build on what works and attempts to fix what doesn’t.”
Find document here.
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