My big fear in caring for elderly patients? When the family goes to war
The emotional dynamics of aged care are not easy, not easy for staff, nor for GPs
As alarm mounts regarding the troubled state of general practice, the conditions under which GPs provide care to aged residents in nursing homes require review.
GP numbers are falling. Recruitment into general practice is at an all-time low.
Many practices are abandoning universal bulk-billing, having found that that model is no longer sustainable.
In this witches’ cauldron of toil and trouble, what will induce GPs to continue to visit aged-care centres?
