Dental service provision in Victorian residential aged care facilities

Medication charts in residential aged-care facilities.

Pain management in residential aged care facilities.

BACKGROUND Persistent pain is prevalent in aged care facilities and there are a number of barriers that make effective pain management more difficult to achieve in this setting. OBJECTIVE The aim of this article is to provide an evidence-based approach to assessment and management of pain experienced by residents of aged care facilities. DISCUSSION Barriers to effective pain management in r...

Examining the role of information exchange in residential aged care work practices-a survey of residential aged care facilities

BACKGROUND The provision of residential aged care is underpinned by information, and is reliant upon systems that adequately capture and effectively utilise and communicate this information. The aim of this study was to explicate and quantify the volume and method by which information is collected, exchanged within facilities and with external providers, and retrieved from facility information ...

Dental hygiene students' views on a service-learning residential aged care placement program.

PURPOSE To record the views of final year dental hygiene students from the University of Newcastle, Australia about a placement in 17 residential aged care facilities, on the NSW Central Coast. METHODS Final year dental hygiene students undertook a 12 week placement, 1 day per week, in 1 of 17 residential aged care facilities. They were asked to participate in focus group discussions after th...

Issues in Residential Broadband Internet Service Provision

The CATV industry sees itself as extending to become a FSN (full service network) provider, and so would like to offer data services, notably IP (Internet Protocol) connectivity. Cable companies have the raw network capacity to the home that gives them the potential to offer broadband services that can not be matched by traditional PSTN/modem connectivity. In the home, SoHo (small-office/home-o...