Related resources - Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard

General

• Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
  • Person-centred care
  • Intellectual disability and inclusive health care
  • Cognitive impairment
  • User guide for health service organisations providing care for patients with cognitive impairment or at risk of delirium

Aged care

• The 10 principles of dignity in care, which describes the care that people living with dementia, and their families, can expect to receive
• What is person-centred care? from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
• Supported Decision-Making in Aged Care: A policy development guideline for aged care
  providers in Australia, second edition from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre
• Supporting decision-making: A guide for people living with dementia, family members and carers from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre
• Supported Decision-Making: Help and assistance for decision makers and supporters from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre
• Dementia and changed behaviours: supporting the person at the centre from NPS MedicineWise
• Assessment and Management of Behaviours and Psychological Symptoms associated
  with Dementia (BPSD) from NSW Health

Disability care

• Diversity, dignity, equity and best practice: A framework for supported decision-making from the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
• Responding to Needs of People with Disability during Hospitalisation policy directive from NSW Health
• Your right to good health care fact sheet from the Council for Intellectual Disability
• The Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry: A guide to resources, developed by the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) to assist healthcare services with providing care to people with intellectual disability, including guidance about principles to support service delivery, suggestions for reasonable adjustments, assessing and managing behaviours of concern, and supporting responsible psychotropic prescribing in people with an intellectual disability
• Intellectual Disability Network from the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation
• Supported Decision Making from Inclusion Australia

Culturally safe and equitable care

• Yarning to Make Health Decisions Together from the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation
• ‘No More Waiting’: A guide for organisations to plan with Aboriginal people with
  disability from the Intellectual Disability Behaviour Support Program, University of
  New South Wales

General

• Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
  • User guide for health service organisations providing care for patients with cognitive
    impairment or at risk of delirium
  • Informed consent

Aged care

• Consent for medication in aged care from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
• Consent requirements for the use of restrictive practices in residential aged care from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
• Medication: It’s your choice from the Older Person’s Advocacy Network
• Supported decision-making from the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre
• Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing

Disability care

• My Rights Matter – Supported decision making hub from the Council for Intellectual Disability
• About decision making capacity from Capacity Australia
• Supported decision making from Inclusion Australia
• How to make choices about taking medication Easy Read information about taking medicines by Peter Bates, from the University of Bristol

General

• User guide for health service organisations providing care for patients with cognitive
  impairment or at risk of delirium from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality
  in Health Care

Aged care

• Behavioural Assessment Form and Behaviour Frequency Chart from Dementia Support Australia
• Dementia Outcomes Measurement Suite (DOMS), a compendium of tools to assess BPSD, from Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration
• Assessment and Management of Behaviours and Psychological Symptoms associated with Dementia (BPSD) from NSW Health
• Behaviour Management: A Guide to Good Practice and resources to support the management of behaviours and psychological symptoms associated with dementia (such as the Clinicians Field Guide to Good Practice, Guide for Family Carers, BPSD app for clinicians and Care4Dementia app for family members), from the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration

Disability care

• Developmental Behaviour Checklist, a suite of questionnaires completed over six months by parents, other primary carers or teachers to inform assessment of behavioural and emotional problems of children, adolescents and adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities
• Compendium of Resources for Positive Behaviour Support: A guide for behaviour support practitioners, a comprehensive list of positive behaviour support assessment tools that can be used by behaviour support practitioners for behaviour support assessment, planning, intervention, monitoring and review, from the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
• The Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry: A guide to resources, developed by the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) to assist healthcare services with providing care to people with intellectual disability, including guidance about principles to support service delivery, suggestions for reasonable adjustments, assessing and managing behaviours of concern, and supporting responsible psychotropic prescribing in people with an intellectual disability

General

• User guide for health service organisations providing care for patients with cognitive
  impairment or at risk of delirium from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality
  in Health Care

Aged care

• Dementia Support Australia, incorporating the Dementia Behaviour Management Advisory Services (DBMAS), which provides clinical support to healthcare providers, and family and support people of a person showing BPSD, including for care at home (a 24‑hour helpline is available 
  on 1800 699 799)
• A Guide for Family Carers: Dealing with behaviours in people with dementia from the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration
• Care of Confused Hospitalised Older Persons (CHOPs) from NSW Health

Disability care

• Compendium of Resources for Positive Behaviour Support: A guide for behaviour support practitioners, a comprehensive list of positive behaviour support assessment tools that can be used by behaviour support practitioners for behaviour support assessment, planning, intervention, monitoring and review, from the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

Aged care

• Behaviour support plans – fact sheet from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
• Dementia Support Australia, which provides support for people living with dementia and
  who have behaviours of concern, including
  • Help with the assessment of people living with dementia in residential aged care and
    recommendations on appropriate interventions
  • Behaviour support plan resources toolkit, which assists healthcare and service providers with the changes to the requirements for residents of aged care homes to have a behaviour support plan
  • For more information see the Dementia Support Australia (DSA) website

Disability care

• Behaviour Support and the Use of Medication: A guide for practitioners from the Intellectual Disability Behaviour Support Program
• NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
  • Behaviour support introduction booklet
  • Participant fact sheets for behaviour support
  • Understanding behaviour support and restrictive practices – for providers
  • Fact sheets and process guides
  • Submitting behaviour support plans and reports – the Interim behaviour support plan template and the Comprehensive behaviour support plan template

General

• User guide for health service organisations providing care for patients with cognitive impairment or at risk of delirium from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
• 5 Moments for Medication Safety from the World Health Organization

Aged care

• Dementia and psychotropic medicines from NPS MedicineWise

Disability care

• Behaviour Support and the Use of Medication: A guide for practitioners from the Intellectual Disability Behaviour Support Program
• The Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry: A guide to resources, developed by the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) to assist healthcare services with providing care to people with intellectual disability, including guidance about principles to support service delivery, suggestions for reasonable adjustments, assessing and managing behaviours of concern, and supporting responsible psychotropic prescribing in people with an intellectual disability
• Easy Read Medicine Information Leaflets from the University of Birmingham

General

• User guide for health service organisations providing care for patients with cognitive impairment or at risk of delirium from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
• Medication Management Programs from The Pharmacy Programs Administrator
• Guidelines, guides, and protocols for deprescribing specific drug classes from the Australian Deprescribing Network (ADeN)
• Deprescribing resources from Primary Health Tasmania, outlining recommended deprescribing strategies for commonly used medicines, including psychotropic medicines, when ongoing use is not appropriate, revised and updated by geriatrician Dr David Dunbabin, GP Dr Amanda Lo and pharmacist Dr Peter Tenni
• Deprescribing algorithms from the Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network, evidence‑based guidelines for deprescribing, summarised in an easy‑to‑use algorithm and information brochure, to help clinicians safely stop or reduce medicines for specific drug classes, developed by researchers from the Bruyère Research Institute and the Ontario Pharmacy Research Collaboration

Aged care

• Clinical practice guidelines for the appropriate use of psychotropic medications in people living with dementia and in residential aged care
• Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI), a tool used to assess behaviours that can occur in people with dementia, and that can also be used to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment
• Dementia and psychotropic medicines from NPS MedicineWise
• RACGP aged care clinical guide (Silver Book – Part A): Deprescribing from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
• Deprescribing resources from the NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group Inc., developed by a translational research project team led by Professor Sarah Hilmer for clinicians to support deprescribing in older persons in hospital 
• Reviewing and tapering antipsychotic medicines for BPSD review form from NPS MedicineWise
• Appropriate prescribing of antipsychotic medication in dementia from the NHS London Clinical Network and NHS Yorkshire and the Humber Clinical Network

Disability care

• Behaviour Support and the Use of Medication: A guide for practitioners from the Intellectual Disability Behaviour Support Program
• The Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry: A guide to resources, developed by the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) to assist healthcare services with providing care to people with intellectual disability, including guidance about principles to support service delivery, suggestions for reasonable adjustments, assessing and managing behaviours of concern, and supporting responsible psychotropic prescribing in people with an intellectual disability
• Medication Management Pathway from the Challenging Behaviour Foundation and Stopping Over‑Medication in People with a Learning Disability, Autism or Both (STOMP) program

General

• Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
  − NSQHS Medication Safety Standard
  − NSQHS Communicating for Safety Standard
  − NSQHS Communicating for Safety resource portal
  − User guide for health service organisations providing care for patients with cognitive impairment or at risk of delirium
• Guiding principles to achieve continuity in medication management from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
• Pharmacist shared medicines list from the Australian Digital Health Agency
• National Medication Management Plan (NMMP), a standardised form designed for use in Australian healthcare services to improve the accuracy and completeness of documented information to support continuity of medication management and medication reconciliation during transitions of care
• Principle 4: Information sharing of the ACCHO Medicines Management Guidelines for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations
• Australian Medical Association position statement on general practice/hospitals transfer of care arrangements 2018 from the Australian Medical Association
• Chapter 6: Facilitating Continuity of Medication Management on Transition Between Care Settings of the Standards of Practice for Clinical Pharmacy Services from the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
• Chapter 16: My Health Record of the Standards of Practice for Clinical Pharmacy Services from the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia

Aged care

• Aged Care Transfer-to-Hospital Envelope with Template
• Care of Confused Hospitalised Older Persons (CHOPs) from NSW Health
• TOP 5, a clinician–carer communication tool that can be used across healthcare settings to enhance the delivery of person‑centred care in people living with dementia.

Disability care

• Resources for health professionals working with people with and intellectual disability from the Monash Health Centre for Developmental Disability Health
• Practice Alert: Transitions of care between disability services and hospitals from the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
• Practice Alert: Medicines associated with swallowing problems from the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission