Residents of a long-term care facility have the right to freedom from chemical restraints. A chemical restraint is given for a purpose other than it’s intended use, and given for punishment, coercion, ...

Last month the aged care minister Ken Wyatt announced he would introduce regulations to address the use of “chemical restraint” in residential aged care – a practice where residents are given ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care and Safety wasn't supposed to make any recommendations in its interim report. Yet it identified three key areas where immediate action should be taken. Responding ...

The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...

Black patients presenting with psychiatric disorders to hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the US have significantly higher rates of chemical restraint than their White counterparts, new ...

Jonathan Evans had finished his medical rounds at a local nursing home when he got a phone call. “Your patient is sexually inappropriate” a nurse at the facility told him. Evans is a geriatrician in ...

Issues over the use of chemical restraint in a home run by the HSE were raised by HIQA following an inspection. A report following an inpsection at Rusheen House found that not all chemical restraint ...

This year I have interviewed dozens of people who have told me how aged care facilities drugged their parents, grandparents, husbands, wives and neighbours. We’d sit down in someone’s home, or in an ...

After seeing several recent reports that nursing homes throughout the nation are improperly using antipsychotic medications to “chemically restrain” residents with dementia, I feel compelled to point ...

One in five nursing home residents are given antipsychotic drugs. Cineberg/Shutterstock The Royal Commission into Aged Care and Safety wasn’t supposed to make any recommendations in its interim report ...