Almost 40% of Aged Care Residents Face Abuse: Royal Commission Data

This critical synopsis discusses the prevalence of abuse and neglect in aged care homes, with almost 40% of residents facing abuse according to data released by the royal commission. The essay highlights the negative impact on the health and quality of life of older people, and identifies knowledge gaps in the literature regarding interventions and causes of abuse. The importance of improving care services and the role of nursing staff is emphasized, with implications for both older people and new graduate nurses.

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1. Title and link
Almost 40 per cent of residents in aged care facilities have been abused, data released by royal commission shows
(https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-22/royal-commission-estimates-40-pc-aged-care-residents-face-abuse/13007864)
2. Introduction
There are large number of old age people are living in the aged care home where they are getting better care facilities. In this, it is
essential to take care about the effective response which can help to get better implementation about using of effective practices that can help to
provide better information about the service delivery from staff member or nursing staff. In this essay, there is discussion about the information
which can show that there are many of the older people are facing any type of abuse in the aged care settings. There is also discussion about the
implication of older people, importance of nursing staff in the aged care settings (Barry et. al., (2022)).
3. Summary of media item
According to Mary Lloyd (2020), there are about 40% of the people face at least one type of abuse in the aged care setting. In aged care
home there are many older people who have share the information that they have face some neglect or any abuse which create high difficulty to

deal with the situation that can impact the health outcomes. Author argument that there are many older people who have faced any type of
neglect or abuse while getting services from healthcare professional but they get neglected and mistreated that lead to create negative response
(Westwood, (2019)).
4. A review of the aged care literature
According to Myhre (2020), aged care home is the setting in which older people are provided health and care support. This is the one in
which healthcare professional specially nursing staff are able to provide better delivery of healthcare services which are associated with delivery
of better and effective response towards the care services to older people (Westwood, (2019)). Through study, it has been identified that there
are large number of older people who are facing negative care and neglect in the care service. There are also many people who have reported
that within aged care home older people and their family member are not getting better care where neglect is higher. There are also many
information gathering in which it has been identified that there are large number of population which are effective and get better care services
which are associated with ensure about getting better care by the staff member and the nursing staff. It has also been observed that there are
large number of population face the risk of neglect where healthcare professional of nursing staff neglects their specific need and have chances
of not getting better delivery of care to older people to help and support effectively.
According to Ana gil (2021), it has been identified that there is large number of case of neglect and abuse which are generally faced by
older people in the aged care home. There are many people who have reported that their parents or relative are getting supported in the aged care

home but delivered services are not enough or quality has been compromised. This can have negative impact on the health improvement and can
lead to create difficulty in improving the quality of life (Bodkin et. al., (2019)). It has been reported that about 40% of older people face any type
of abuse or neglect while getting support in the aged care home which should be taken in consideration to improve the care service and take
appropriate action that can help to conduct better service delivery to improve older people health. After asked by the older people from aged care
home, they revealed that they have face neglect and sometimes get mistreated by the staff member either in behaviour or taking care of their
specific needs. This leads to make them face various difficulties. They have faced the physical abuse, mistreatment and misbehave, verbal or
psychological abuse, rough handling, yelling in anger, behaving aggressively with older people, punching, slapping, hitting, speaking in harsh
tone and many more. These are some of the abuse which are generally faced by the older people in aged care homes.
5. Knowledge gaps identified from literature reviewed
There are some of the knowledge gaps in the literature review which includes about intervention and ways which can be effective to
minimise or finish abuse in the aged care home. There is another gap which includes the causes which leads to create the situation of neglect of
abuse in the aged care home (Meinhofer et. al., (2019)). There is another gap which does not include in the literature review that role of nursing
staff the supervisor who have the responsibility to ensure about conduction proper delivery to older people who are in the aged care home. They
should ensure that there should not any type of case of neglect or abuse which can have negative impact on the older people in aged care homes.
6. Implications for the older person

To reduce the cases of neglect or abuse in the aged care home, there is highly need to ensure about healthy practice which should be
conducted in the aged care home. This can lead to create high impact on the service delivery where older people should get better care and
service for their health benefits (Bloemen et. al., (2019)). There should not any type of neglect or abuse that can have negative impact on their
health or quality of life. Through getting knowledge about the cases of neglect and abuse which is highly effective for the older people in aged
care home which lead to create high negative health impact on their quality of life. There is high impact of getting knowledge about the cases of
neglect and abuse that allow nursing staff and available staff member to get ensure about taking care of effective response towards the delivery
of better service. This can help to improve the care practice and their quality that can help to improve it more effectively. Through getting the
information can help to better deal with the situation that are effective and allow to improve the care services which are associated with
improving care service and reducing the neglect and abuse cases in the aged care home. This knowledge can allow to improve the care services
quality and take appropriate action to reduce the cases of neglect and abuse in the aged care homes. This can help to improve the delivery of care
services to older people in the aged care homes which also support in improving quality of life (Yon et. al., (2019)).
7. Importance to new graduate nurses
There is high important of having this information which can help to get better learning and improve service delivery practice in such a
way that it can help to improve the positive impact of care services and help in improving the life. There is also high impact on the learning the
care service which are effective and help to get better care of older people in the aged care home. This information can help to improve the

service delivery and help nursing staff member to focus on the quality of service delivery and ensure about the proper care of older people in the
aged care homes. Through using the knowledge, it can allow to take different measures that can help to improve the quality of care and help to
ensure about safety from any type of neglect or abuse in the aged care homes. Here, nursing practices include the appropriate care of older
people needs which should be fulfil by them for supporting them in aged care homes (Westwood, (2019)).
8. Conclusion
From the above discussion, it can have concluded that there are large number of cases of neglect and abuse in the aged care home. This
can lead to create high negative health impact on the quality of care. It has been observed that about 40% of older people face abuse or neglect in
the aged care home. This can lead to create high negative health impact on the quality of service delivery. There is need to ensure about better
and effective response towards the care service which should be provided to older people in the aged care home. In this essay, there is discussion
about the implication for older people to improve the healthcare services. There is also discussion about the high negative health impact on the
older people who have specific need and face neglect or abuse in the aged care homes.
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