PainChek General Discussion, page-5266

Feedback from the Case Study for Regents Garden. This was recently tweeted by PainChek.

Introducing PainChek® to our residents

Yvonne Ayre, General Manager at Regents Garden, talks about the accuracy of pain diagnosis through the PainChek® assessments – which in turn enables a more accurate treatment plan:

“Having the evidence to support a pain diagnosis has often proved difficult when caring for people with dementia. Pain and behaviour management often go hand in hand and PainChek® has provided us with a simple but effective tool to diagnose that a person has pain and effectively manage that pain.”

“As a result, we now have a number of documented cases of reduced use of behaviour medications (such as antipsychotics) and an improvement in the quality of life for the residents.”

“We see the PainChek® application as a valuable addition to our pain management system. The training and support from the staff at PainChek® has been first class and the registered nurses at Regents Garden have embraced this tool and have nothing but praise for the results that we are finding.”

Supporting re-accreditation through the Aged Care Quality Commission (ACQC- the accreditation body for aged care services).

PainChek® has played an important role in helping secure the re-accreditation of Regents Garden through addressing improvements in Standard 2 “Health and personal care”, as demonstrated in the quote below taken from the recent re-accreditation report.