Adverse impacts in residential aged care facilities: The resident perspective

CONCLUSIONS: This research highlights the difference between health-care definition, used for incident management reporting and quality indicators, and the way residents respond when asked to describe an incident that has affected them. Resident responses discuss situations having an adverse effect on them in contrast to the way adverse events and incidents are reported and monitored. The findings suggest that within adverse event and incident management systems and resident governance systems, there is scope for incorporating periods of transitions and well-being measures that capture elements that matter to older people.PMID:38595217 | DOI:10.1111/ajag.13306
Source: Australasian Journal on Ageing - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Source Type: research