BOSTON: Multidisciplinary ‘Severe Behaviur Response Teams’ will provide expert advice to residential aged care facilities that need assistance caring for residents with severe behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) under a new initiative.
The response teams, which will assess the causes of a resident’s BPSD and provide care advice to staff, are expected to get underway later this year.
But one critic said the idea of response teams had merit but whether they could provide resources and expertise quickly enough to circumstances in regional, rural and remote areas would need monitoring.
Roaming teams of experts may work in the first instance but building capacity through a whole-of-workforce approach needed to be part of the future workforce development policy and funding, he said…