Swallowing Difficulties and Choking – Aged Care Quality Standard 3

This course covers the following:

Swallowing difficulties:

• Overview
• Common causes
• Signs and symptoms
• Aspiration pneumonia
• Prevention and management strategies

Choking:

• Overview
• Common causes
• Signs and symptoms
• Prevention and management strategies
• Emergency procedures

Business Objectives

Aged care services are required to have strategies in place to identify and address the risk for choking. The burden and mortality rates from swallowing difficulties and choking remain high and are largely preventable. Emergency procedures in response to choking are delivered in a step by step process and include recommendations if a person cannot easily be moved. Swallowing Difficulties and Choking aligns to Standard 3 of the Aged Care Quality Standards and is one of the identified high impact, high prevalence risks.

Audience

This learning activity is for Aged Care workers