Research and Innovation

Resthaven-funded Research:

COTA SA Regional Listening Posts

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Developing a Customer Experience Blueprint.

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Customer Engagement: What do people want to know about Resthaven?

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• Resthaven Customer-Centric Business Transformation Case Study

Keeping Older Aboriginal Peoples Strong

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Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner Role in Residential Care

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Models of respite for carers of people with dementia
Dementia Australia (formerly Alzheimer’s Australia); Dr Lyn Phillipson, University of Wollongong

• ReThink Respite Research Project Evaluation Summary
• Rethink Respite: resources to support carers to access respite services – Research Outcomes

Optimising the use of medicines in aged care facilities
Dementia Australia (formerly Alzheimer’s Australia); Professor Simon Bell, Monash University

• Optimising the use of medicines in aged care facilities – research summary
• Complex regimens and polypharmacy – research summary
• Project Prevent: avoiding hospitalisation by improving understanding of the ways to prevent infections in older people living in residential aged care – research summary 

Nutrition and protein uptake in older people
Geriatrics Training & Research with Aged Care (G-TRAC) Centre, Resthaven research grant

Emergency preparedness and resilience: an older person’s perspective
Doctoral research scholarship in emergency management and older people at Flinders University. Working under the supervision of Professor Paul Arbon, the recipient of the scholarship was Victoria Cornell.

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Technological solutions for falls/balance monitoring
Geriatrics Training & Research with Aged Care (G-TRAC) Centre, Resthaven research grant

Developing a Healthy Workplace at Resthaven 
Dr Kate Barnett, Australian Industrial Transformation Institute

• Commitment to employee health and wellbeing: Staying healthy in body, mind and spirit – Research Update

Aged Care Service Improvement and Healthy Ageing Grants (ACSIHAG):

Developing the multicultural workforce to improve the quality of care for residents

• Research update/outcome
• Xiao LD, Willis E, Harrington A, et al.
  Improving socially constructed cross-cultural communication in aged care homes: A critical perspective. Nurs Inq.2018;25:e12208. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12208
• Xiao LD, Willis E, Harrington A, et al.
  New Migrants in Residential Aged Care: Managing Diversity in Not-for-Profit Organisations. Journal of International Migration and Integration. 2018;1-18 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-018-0564-2

Developing the multicultural workforce – Cross Cultural Care Program

• Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing
  Online Cultural diversity training module
• Flinders University
  Join the course to learn more

Evaluation of a nurse-led education program to improve cross-cultural care for older people in aged care

• Article: Evaluation of a nurse-led education program to improve cross-cultural care for older people in aged care

Resthaven-funded Research
(conducted by Resthaven employees):

Enhancing Quality of Life for Residents with Parkinson’s Disease

• Research Update/Outcome

The Aged Care Clinical Mentor Model of Change
The Aged Care Clinical Mentor Model of Change (ACCMMoC) was developed as an ‘Encouraging Better Practice in Aged Care (EBPAC) project. It aimed to implement best clinical practice related to an identified clinical priority area via a workforce mentoring model, which includes the role of an Aged Care Clinical mentor (ACCM).

• Aged Care Clinical Mentor Model of Change: Six Steps to Better Practice

In 2018, Resthaven implemented a second trial of the Aged Care Clinical Mentor Model of Change to improve Wound Management.

• Aged Care Clinical Mentor Model of Change – Wound Management Trial

‘Yellow Brick Road’ Map Concept
Creating a visually aesthetic map as a helpful tool for people to get to know a new residential services environment at Resthaven.

• Research outcome for Teaching and Research Yellow Brick Road Map Concept

Cognitive Stimulation Therapy in groups for people with dementia

• Making Minds Matter A structured program using CST

Researching the option of an Artist in Residence/Community Arts project

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Guidance for the Selection of Generators for Aged Care Homes

A guide developed by Resthaven and the Torrens Resilience Institute, Flinders University. Funded by the South Australian State Government and the Commonwealth Department of Home Affairs. Supported by ACSA and Disaster Resilient Australia.

• Guidance for the Selection of Generators for Aged Care Homes

Australian Research Centre – Funded Linkage:

Service development CDC

• The Rise of the Consumer: Engagement of Older People with Consumer Directed Care
• The Rise of the Consumer ARC Linkage project – Summary

Social Isolation of older people

• Regional variation in social isolation amongst older Australians – University of Adelaide. 

Health Economic model of CDC

• What features of ‘consumer-directed’ home-based support services are important to older Australians and their informal carers – development of attributes for a discrete choice experiment – Flinders University

Industry Collaboration:

Caring Futures Institute

• Australian iSupport for Dementia project

Centre of Research Excellence Frailty and Healthy Ageing

• Prolonged Wait Time Prior To Entry To Home Care Packages Increases The Risk Of Mortality And Transition To Permanent Residential Aged Care Services: Findings From The Registry Of Older South Australians (ROSA)

• Orthopaedic surgeons’ perceptions of frailty and frailty screening

SA Innovation Hub
A coalition of aged care service providers who are finding ways to improve governance, leadership, consumer engagement and quality of service.

• Measuring Quality of Life in Residential Care – 2017 SA Innovation Hub – Deakin Report
• SA Innovation Hub’s mentoring program supports emerging talent at Resthaven