Over 140 recommendations were made by the Royal Commission — including the creation ofNational Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines.For our teams at Hassell,creating inclusive environments where communities are able to come together to live comfortably in a place they love and feel suppor...
Re-design of Aged Care Environments is Key to Improved Care Quality and Cost Effective Reform of Aged and Health System CareApplied Health Economics and Health Policy -doi:10.1007/s40258-018-0435-1Eckermann, SimonAustralian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, ...
Design makes a place a prison or a home. Turning ‘human-centred’ vision for aged care into reality Posted onApril 16, 2021 Shutterstock Jan Golembiewski,University of Technology Sydney TheRoyal Commission into Aged Careleft organisations that provide housing for aged care wondering how they will...
This study examines the role of Design-Led Innovation in creating shared value; sustainable competitive advantage for an organisation and social value for the communities in which it operates. A case study analysed an undertaking by a not-for-profit aged care organisation to create a sustainable co...
Energy is essential to ensure reliable operation and quality care provision in residential aged care communities (RAC). The aim of this study is to determine how RAC’s yearly energy use and peak demand changed in Australia and what this might mean for RAC design, operation and energy asset ...
2.1. Design This was a pilot study with two intervention groups: (1) RT at a gymnasium; (2) RT at home. Participants in both groups were all connected with a peer (see Section 2.4 below for further details). Each RT intervention ran for 6 weeks. 2.2. Participants and Setting Recruitmen...
Medication errors in residential aged care facilities: A distributed cognition analysis of the information exchange process 2013, International Journal of Medical Informatics Citation Excerpt : This inhibits identification of gaps in the process design and systematic conditions that lead to medication errors...
The study design and primary results from the LIBERTY AD PEDS trial have been described elsewhere and are briefly summarized here [4]. LIBERTY AD PEDS was a randomized, placebo-controlled phase III clinical trial conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committees and ...
38,39 We indicated that the incidence of postvaccination myocarditis in this age group was also very low, even with the potential overreporting, although the design of our 1-group meta-analysis cannot suggest a causal relationship due to the absence of a comparator. In the present study, ...
Design, Setting, and Participants Community-based prospective cohort study of 1298 participants from the Framingham Heart Study who were aged 55 to 65 years and free of hypertension at baseline (1976-1998). Main Outcome Measures Residual lifetime risk (lifetime cumulative incidence not adjusted for...