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Six Pressing Issues when Living in Residential Care

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#Ministry of Health, (December 2011). A review of the use of antipsychotic drugs in British Columbia’s residential care facilities, p.7. Online: http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/library/publications/year/2011/use-of-antipsychotic-drugs.pdf (Last accessed May 10, 2016). [ “BC anti-psychotic drug review”]
#BC anti-psychotic drug review. See, RCR, Division 5, “Use of restraints”, s. 73-75.
# See: BC anti-psychotic drug review, pg. 8 and 9. Also Office of the Seniors Advocate. (2015) Monitoring Seniors ' Services. p. 25.Online: https://www.seniorsadvocatebc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/01/SA-MonitoringSeniorsServices-2015.pdf (Last accessed May 10, 2016). ["Monitoring Seniors' Services"]
#BC Patient Safety and Quality Council. “Call for Less Antipsychotics in Residential care (“CLeAR”) “ Online : http://bcpsqc.ca/clinical-improvement/clear/ (Last accessed May 10, 2016)
#Best practice guideline for dementia.
#RCR, s. 58 (1).
#RCR, s. 58 (2).
#Schedule D of the Residential Care Regulation lists and defines 20 events, behaviours and actions that constitute a reportable incident. Section 77 of the RCR also states that a person in care is involved in a “reportable incident” when that person is the subject either of a reportable incident or, in the case of emotional, physical, financial or sexual abuse or neglect, of an alleged or suspected reportable incident. or current data on reported abuse or neglect incidents, see Office of Seniors Advocate, "Monitoring Seniors' Services", p. 15.
#See Schedule D, Residential Care Regulation, (“aggressive or unusual behaviour”) “Other injuries” must also be reported — that is, any injury to a person in care that requires emergency attention by a doctor or nurse or transfer to a hospital.
#RCR, s. 77.