Opening the doors to lost worlds: me and my dementia patients
A familiar lone figure waits directly behind the security doors of the geriatric ward. There in his mint green pyjamas and long plaid overcoat he…
Tag: Aged care
Call for more Paxlovid prescribing to prevent COVID-19 deaths in aged care
A leading infectious diseases specialist has urged GPs to prescribe nirmatrelvir–ritonavir more readily for patients in aged care facilities, who are still dying of COVID-19…
Why this registrar plays chess with a retired doctor living in aged care
ICU registrar Dr Aquib Chowdhury, 31, volunteers to regularly visit a doctor living in aged care as a way of giving back to the profession.…
What you need to know about the new aged care incentive
Rural practices accessing the new aged care incentive can provide four of their eight annual visits via telehealth if required, the Department of Health and Aged Care says. The incentive,…
Watchdog warns doctors to limit psychotropics in people with intellectual disability
Psychotropic medications should only be prescribed as a “last resort” for behaviours of concern in patients with intellectual disability, according to a new clinical care…
MyMedicare: What GPs must do to claim $300 aged care incentive
GPs must provide an aged care patient eight consultations a year, plus two care planning services, to receive the new $300 aged care incentive under…
‘Treated like interns working all hours’: What happened to GPs after the aged care royal commission?
One of the aged care facilities where I see residents has a car space under a shady tree reserved for doctors. It seems a welcoming…
Relaxing script monitoring laws for palliative and aged care patients ‘a welcome change’
Prescribing opioids or benzodiazepines to aged care residents or palliative patients would no longer require logging in to script monitoring software under a Queensland Government…
Is the government’s new $300 aged care incentive a fair deal for GPs?
A “kick in the guts”, “disappointing” and “ludicrous” are how some GPs have described the Federal Government’s proposed new aged care incentive. Minister for Health…
MyMedicare aged care incentive for GPs set at $300 a year per patient
GPs will directly receive $300 a year for each aged care patient they treat under MyMedicare, with another $130 per patient going to their practice…
