Medication Management in Residential Aged Care
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- Antipsychotic therapy for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, 2011-11-14
- Drugs for dementia and Alzheimer's Disease, 2009-04-06
- Proton pump inhibitors - the step-down approach, 2009-04-06
- Managing urinary incontinence, 2009-12-08
- Managing sleep and hypnotic medicines, 2010-01-21
- Managing chronic pain, 2010-05-21
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and helping smokers to quit
Approximately two-thirds of Australia’s four million smokers are currently considering quitting smoking, but some people need a little extra support to maintain a cessation program and quit for good.
While new data has led to some changes in COPD guidelines, encouraging people with COPD to quit smoking remains the most important recommendation—no treatment has been found to slow the progression of airflow limitation as much as quitting smoking does.
Providing support for patients with COPD and encouraging smokers to quit can be challenging. To help, the following NPS resources and activities have been developed to assist with assist with engaging with patients who may be ready, especially those with COPD:
- NPS News 68: Helping smokers quit
- Go to the resource page.
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- Prescribing Practice Review 50: Smoking cessation and managing stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Go to the resource page.
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- NPS Case Study 63 - Managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Go to online case study.
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Smoking cessation resources and support
Training
- Quit Victoria smoking cessation DVD for GPs can be ordered using the form at http://www.quit.org.au/downloads/GP_ordform.pdf
- RACGP offers online learning at http://www.gplearning.com.au/ as does Quit Victoria at http://www.quit.org.au/
- State-based Quit organisations run Quit skill courses for health and community services workers, see http://www.quitnow.info.au/internet/quitnow/publishing.nsf/Content/contact for a list of contacts.
Support and resources for patients
- QuitLine 131 848
- The National Tobacco Campaign website
- Online resources for people quitting and those supporting them, including online nicotine dependence test on the websites of Quit NSW and Quit Victoria
- Smoking fact sheets in community languages
- NPS Medicines Update on varenicline for smoking cessation
- NPS MedicinesTalk Winter 2009: Quitting is worth it
