Coming Home from Hospital

Links to information about coming home from hospital and convalescing after serious illness or injury.

Reviewed August 2008

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Title:   Media release. Queensland transition care places - out of hospital and back into their homes
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Australian Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, today announced a further 16 transition care places have become operational in Queensland - helping hundreds of older people out of hospital and back to their homes.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Media release. Transition care places: helping older people recover and return to their homes
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government has allocated 228 new transition care places under its $293.2 million plan to help older Australians recover from a hospital stay and return to their own homes.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Media release. Further NSW transitional care places rolled out: Central Coast
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government today announced another six new transition places for the Central Coast, bringing the number of fully-funded places in the region to 56. This means up to 420 older people a year living on the NSW Central Coast will get assistance to help them regain their independence after a major hospital stay.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   What therapy might I get?
Publisher:   National Stroke Foundation (NSF)
Description:   Recovering from a stroke is normally a long process. In most cases, the greatest amount of recovery occurs in the first 2-6 months, but slow improvement can occur for several years. The recovery time is different for each person but generally takes longer with more severe strokes.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Media release. NSW transition care places - helping up to 405 people a year return to their homes
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government today announced another 40 transition care places for NSW, bringing the number of fully-funded places in the State to 54. This will help up to 405 older people a year in NSW.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Leaving hospital
Publisher:   National Stroke Foundation (NSF)
Description:   Leaving the hospital after a stroke is an important step for all stroke survivors and each person will have different needs. You may make a complete recovery after the stroke and go home without any support or you may need some help to be organised for you.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Media release. First 35 places operational under $293.2 million transition care plan - helping older Australians regain their independence
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government announced the first 35 operational places out of its 228 fully funded places under its $293.2 million transition care plan
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Post-coma unresponsiveness
Publisher:   Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:   Consumer involvement in the development of guidelines for caring for people in post-coma unresponsiveness has led to a clear document that addresses the ethical issues associated with making decisions for people unable to make them for themselves.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Media release. Government working on $158 million transition beds - getting elderly into appropriate aged care
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government is working on its election commitment to get 2000 older Australians who are occupying hospital beds into appropriate aged care -freeing up valuable hospital resources for those needing urgent treatment, the Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, said on 25 March.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Pathways home
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Pathways Home is a program that the Australian Government funds under the 2003-08 Australian Health Care Agreements.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Going home
Publisher:   National Stroke Foundation (NSF)
Description:   Going home from hospital after a stroke is an important step for all stroke survivors. Each person will have different needs at home and go home to different types of support. If you have been in hospital, a number of things will happen before you go home.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   NSW government's interim response to tracking tragedy (2007)
Publisher:   NSW Department of Health
Description:   The third Tracking Tragedy report focuses on suspected suicide deaths of consumers of NSW community mental health services who were receiving care for a depressive disorder. The Committee also looked into homicides during 2005-06 that involved mental health consumers.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   General anaesthetics
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   An anaesthetic is a drug or agent that produces a complete or partial loss of feeling. There are three kinds of anaesthetic: general, regional and local. When a patient undergoes a general anaesthetic, they lose sensation and become unconscious.
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Early discharge with home support of gavage feeding for stable preterm infants who have not established full oral feeds
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is not enough strong evidence regarding the effects of early home discharge for preterm babies who are stable but still need gavage (tube) feeds. Babies born preterm (before 37 weeks) are not usually discharged from hospital until they are able to...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Bispectral index for improving anaesthetic delivery and postoperative recovery
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Bispectral index has been shown to improve both anaesthetic delivery and postoperative recovery and to reduce the incidence of intraoperative recall awareness. The use of clinical signs, such as blood pressure and heart rate, for guiding doses of anaest...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Convalescence
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Convalescence is the period in which the body recovers from a serious illness, injury or surgery. Changes to your lifestyle may be needed to make sure the body has enough time and rest to allow a complete recovery.
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   ARPANSA - Recommendations for the Discharge of Patients Undergoing Treatment with Radioactive Substances
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   These Recommendations are designed to provide guidance on the conditions that should be met for the discharge from a hospital or clinic of patients who are undergoing treatment with radioactive substances.
Date:   Apr 2007
Title:   Varicose vein surgery
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Varicose veins are knobbly, twisted and darkish-blue in appearance. They are most commonly found on the legs. They are caused by faulty valves within veins that allow blood to pool. Treatment options include sclerotherapy and surgery.
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   Colonoscopy
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   A colonoscopy is a medical procedure that examines the large bowel. This procedure can be used to look for cancer of the colon or colon polyps, and to help diagnose symptoms such as unexplained diarrhoea or abdominal pain.
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Strategies for the removal of short-term indwelling urethral catheters in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients in hospital with a brief severe illness or following surgery may have a tube placed into the passage from the bladder (an in-dwelling urethral catheter). Potential complications are infection, tissue damage and patient discomfort. This review i...
Date:   Feb 2007
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