The sheer volume of medicines given in each care home or nursing home, combined with challenging behaviour, short staffing, and many other factors mean there is ample opportunity for medicine errors to occur in any residential care setting.
Sometimes these errors can be inconsequential, other times they can be lethal. With the stakes so high, what more can we understand about where errors occur, why they occur and what we can do to reduce the chance of errors, especially the most dangerous ones.