Alternative models of residential care

Internationally, models of residential aged care are changing, with more emphasis being placed on providing care in an environment that looks and feels more like a home. INSPIRED is the first Australian study to measure quality of life, medications, resource use and costs in a home-like, clustered domestic model of care compared to a more standard model of care. The cost of providing these two models was compared, as well as resident outcomes including quality of life, consumer rated quality of care, number of hospitalisations, and number of potentially inappropriate medications prescribed.

Publications

Alternative models of residential care media content:

  1. Aged Care Insite news and interview with Professor Maria Crotty and Dr Suzanne Dyer
  2. Hammond Care news and interview with Dr Suzanne Dyer
  3. Flinders University news and interview with Professor Maria Crotty and Dr Suzanne Dyer
  4. The Conversation news- Caring for elderly Australians in a home-like setting can reduce hospital visits

Clustered domestic residential aged care in Australia: fewer hospitalisations and a better quality of life
Dyer SM, Liu E, Gnanamanickam ES, Milte R, Easton T, Harrison SL, Bradley C, Ratcliffe J, Crotty M (2018). Medical Journal of Australia 208 (10): 433-438.

Psychotropic medications in older people in residential care facilities and associations with quality of life: a cross-sectional study
Harrison SL, Bradley C, Milte R, Liu E, Kouladjian O’Donnell L, Hilmer SN, Crotty M (2018). BMC Geriatrics; 18:60.

Costs of potentially inappropriate medication use in residential aged care facilities
Harrison SL, Kouladjian O’Donnell L, Milte R, Dyer SM, Gnanamanickam ES, Bradley C, Liu E, Hilmer SN, Crotty M (2018). BMC Geriatrics;  18:9.

Associations between the Drug Burden Index, Potentially Inappropriate Medications and Quality of Life in Residential Aged Care

Harrison SL, Kouladjian O’Donnell L, Bradley C, Milte R, Dyer SM, Gnanamanickam ES, Liu E, Hilmer SN, Crotty M (2018). Drugs Aging; 35(1):83-91.

Clustered domestic model of residential care is associated with better consumer rated quality of care
Emmanuel S. Gnanamanickam, Suzanne M. Dyer, Rachel Milte, Enwu Liu Julie Ratcliffe, Maria Crotty, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, mzy181August 28