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.
We need to listen to people with disabilities when they tell us their stories.
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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.
There are several methods by which elderly people are physically restrained in nursing homes.
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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.
Allowing nursing home residents to come and go as they wish may not be so dangerous after all.
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