Research and Innovation

Resthaven-funded Research:

• COTA SA Regional Listening Posts 
• Developing a Customer Experience Blueprint
• Customer Engagement: What do people want to know about Resthaven?
• Resthaven Customer-Centric Business Transformation Case Study
• Keeping Older Aboriginal Peoples Strong
• Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner Role in Residential Care

Models of respite for carers of people with dementia
Dementia Australia; Dr Lyn Phillipson, University of Wollongong

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

Optimising the use of medicines in aged care facilities
Dementia Australia; Professor Simon Bell, Monash University

• Patterns of High‑Dose and Long‑Term Proton Pump Inhibitor Use: A Cross‑Sectional Study in Six South Australian Residential Aged Care Services
• Optimising the use of medicines in aged care facilities
• Complex regimens and polypharmacy 
• Project Prevent: avoiding hospitalisation by improving understanding of the ways to prevent infections in older people living in residential aged care

Geriatrics Training & Research with Aged Care (G-TRAC) Centre

• Frailty change based on minimally important difference in nursing home residents FIRST cohort study findings
• Practitioner perceptions of the feasibility of common frailty screening instruments within general practice settings: a mixed methods study
• Life-Space Mobility in Aged Care Residents: Frailty In Residential Sector over Time (FIRST) Study Findings
• The Frailty In Residential Sector over Time (FIRST) study: methods and baseline cohort description
• Frailty state utility and minimally important difference: findings from the North West Adelaide Health Study
• Understanding consumer perceptions of frailty screening to inform knowledge translation and health service improvements
• Evidence for the external validity of the Consumer Choice Index Six Dimension (CCI-6D) for people living in residential aged care with dementia
• 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.

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.
• 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

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

The Aged Care Clinical Mentor Model of Change
The Aged Care Clinical Mentor Model of Change was developed as an ‘Encouraging Better Practice in Aged Care’ (EBPAC) project aiming at implementing 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
• 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.

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
• Guidance for the Selection of Generators for Aged Care Homes: A guide developed in collaboration with the Torrens Resilience Institute, Flinders University. Funded by the SA State Government and the Commonwealth Dept. of Home Affairs. Supported by ACSA and Disaster Resilient Australia.

Australian Research Centre – Funded Linkage:

Service development Consumer Directed Care (CDC)

• The Rise of the Consumer: Engagement of Older People with CDC

Social Isolation of older people

• Regional variation in social isolation amongst older Australians

Industry Collaboration:

Caring Futures Institute

• Australian iSupport for Dementia project

Medical Research Future Fund 2020 Dementia Ageing and Aged Care Mission Grants, and the 2020 Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration (DCRC) World Class Research Projects

• Creating Partnership in iSupport program
• Australian iSupport for Dementia Research Update
• Australian iSupport for Dementia Research Update

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.