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.