Chemical restraint has no place in aged care, but poorly designed reforms can easily go wrong
- Written by Juanita Westbury, Senior Lecturer in Dementia Care, University of Tasmania
Chemical restraint occurs more often than we think in Australia's aged care system.From shutterstock.com
Last month the aged care minister Ken Wyatt announced he would introduce regulations to address the use of “chemical restraint” in residential aged care – a practice where residents are given psychotropic drugs which affect...