Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety: the key clinical issues.

Joseph E. Ibrahim

First published: 19 May 2019 https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50168

This article reflects on the perceived lapses of care in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). The author argues that ‘RACF business models are moving away from a perceived medically dominated model of care provision. This trend does not serve the rights of the elderly in residential care to equal access to health care’. 

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In discussing some of the shortcomings of care and possible solutions, the Ibrahim concludes that ‘Optimal health care is an essential requirement for maintaining and improving the lives of older people and this should be one of the basic roles of RACFs. This requires the medical profession to establish new standards, identifying and bridging gaps in empirical knowledge, using performance data and advocating for the structural solutions that support promoting the use of evidence‐based practice at the point of care".

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