Aged care home transfers to ED avoidable
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The paperwork is ridiculous. It is mostly devoted to resident classification, which in turn is all about what extra money the RACF can obtain because of the level of need of each resident. The higher the need, the more funding, right? But two points can be made:
- the extra money has never been seen to translate into extra staff in the places where they are needed - caring for residents.
- if DOHA doesn't know by now what is the average cost of care for residents - then what have they been doing these past three decades! Surely we could dispense with much of the paperwork, provide the average (weighted in appropriate cases) cost of resident care - and leave the care/nursing staff to get on with it.
In particular, they could better ease the transition from life to death - which is the subject of this email stream - by proper attention to pain relief and better training in that area.
Rodney Lewis
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5 February 2010
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