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Care facility operators have a general responsibility to promote the health and safety of all residents, and to protect them from harm. This includes harms from other residents. Resident to resident conflict or aggression can have a significant effect on the emotional and physical well-being of the residents and others in the facility.
It has been estimated that 11 per cent of the care facility residents are “aggressive” at some point. ([[{{PAGENAME}}#References|29]]) Drawing on available limited data, the Office of the Seniors Advocate estimated concluded there were between 425 and 550 reports throughout the province of resident to resident aggression causing harm in 2014/15 throughout the province. ([[{{PAGENAME}}#References|30]]) In some instances this can lead to serious injury, even death. The geriatric literature now uses the term “responsive behaviour” to recognize the fact that “aggressive“ residents are often responding (inappropriately) to situations that are frightening to them or causing confusion, Residents may be responsive for many reasons, often it is because of confusion caused by dementia, inadequately addressed pain or an underlying medical condition that is not under control. The resident to resident harms can occur in general residential care facilities as well as those with special dementia units.
The Residential Care Regulation requires care facility operators to report “aggressive or unusual behaviour”. This is defined as “aggressive or unusual behaviour by a person in care towards other persons, including another person in care, which has not been appropriately assessed in the care plan of the person in care.”([[{{PAGENAME}}#References|31]])