Question

⦁   Complete the table below. Identify one (1) consideration for each of the following in risk management for aged care. For each consideration, provide at least one (1) way of minimising the risk.

Considerations in risk management for aged care     And   Ways of minimising risk
Guidance:
Provide one for each risk

Guidance: Provide one for each risk.
Environmental consideration                
Physical consideration                
Physiological consideration    

          
 

Answer 1

Risk management in Aged care:

• Errors are often made at the intake stage in misidentifying important health factors in residents. Those initial errors make later risks much more likely.
• Risks come from the unidentified or misidentified medical condition of residents.
• Nutritional and fluid intake errors.
• Mishandling of powerful psychotropic drugs, cardiac medications, heart medications, anticonvulsant medications, and mixed prescription use.
• Incomplete fall protections.
• Incomplete care of skin integrity breaks.
• Incorrect assessment of vision, hearing, sensation, and balance.

Poorly assessed dementia and cognitive impairments and failure to provide for them.

Environmental factors that may benefit both resident and care worker in aged care:

• capability with mobility task performance may be improved through exercise and rehabilitation.
• This includes chair-related factors (e.g., chair type, armrests, height), bed height and type, toilet height, low technology-assistive devices to aid mobility such as bedpoles/sticks and grab rails, and clear space including adequate chair foot clearance.

Individualized seated height assessment to meet an older person's mobility needs.

Physical considerations:

• Regular physical activity helps to improve physical and mental functions
• Regular excercise sholud be continued.
• Ensure meaningful muscle falls
• Maintain a healthier lifestyle.  

Physiological cinsiderations:

To facilitate older people to stay in the community, it is important to treat or ameliorate medical conditions, promote healthy lifestyles and consider gender-specific risks.

Cardiovascular system and Nervous system shows errors in functions due to aging.