scholarly journals Structuring the Environmental Experience Design Research Framework through Selected Aged Care Facility Data Analyses in Victoria

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Ma ◽  
Hing-wah Chau ◽  
Jin Zhou ◽  
Masa Noguchi
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Aged Care Facility ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Environmental Experience

scholarly journals The Usability Study of a Proposed Environmental Experience Design Framework for Active Ageing

Buildings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masa Noguchi ◽  
Nan Ma ◽  
Catherine Woo ◽  
Hing-wah Chau ◽  
Jin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Environmental Experience

Growing ageing population today may be necessitating building design decision makers to reconsider the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) standards in a way that accommodates senior occupants’ diverse and individual needs and demands. An experience design approach to rationalising and individualising end-user experience on how to utilise tangible products may serve to reflect user perceptions. Generally, architectural design practices tend to incorporate neither IEQ monitoring and analysis data, nor environmental experience design today. In response to the need for filling this gap, the authors of this paper conducted a feasibility study previously that led to structuring and defining an ‘Environmental Experience Design’ (EXD) research framework. Based on the previous case study on the collective spatial analysis and IEQ monitoring results, this paper further explored the usability and applicability of this proposed EXD framework particularly to the previously documented aged care facility in Victoria, Australia, which has been stressing active ageing agendas. This EXD framework usability experiment helped to build the capacity for engaging the subjectivity and objectivity of end users’ expectations, desires, and requirements in the architectural design thinking process. Nonetheless, due to the limitation of this initial and fundamental usability study’s resources and the objective, the necessity of adjusting the scale and scope of EXD analyses emerged. Moreover, the universality of this EXD research framework usage under various architectural typologies and user conditions yet require further attempts and investigations.

Managing the wandering behaviour of people living in a residential aged care facility

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 454-496
Author(s):  
Brent Hodgkinson ◽  
Susan Koch ◽  
Rhonda Nay ◽  
Matthew Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Care Facility ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Residential Aged Care ◽  
Aged Care Facility ◽  
Residential Aged Care Facility

scholarly journals Factors impacting hospital avoidance program utilisation in the care of acutely unwell residential aged care facility residents

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Testa ◽  
Tayhla Ryder ◽  
Jeffrey Braithwaite ◽  
Rebecca J. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Care Facility ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Residential Aged Care ◽  
Nurse Specialist ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Aged Care Facility ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Clinical Nurse ◽  
Residential Aged Care Facility

Abstract Background An existing hospital avoidance program, the Aged Care Rapid Response Team (ARRT), rapidly delivers geriatric outreach services to acutely unwell or older people with declining health at risk of hospitalisation. The aim of the current study was to explore health professionals’ perspectives on the factors impacting ARRT utilisation in the care of acutely unwell residential aged care facility residents. Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with two Geriatricians, two ARRT Clinical Nurse Consultants, an ED-based Clinical Nurse Specialist, and an Extended Care Paramedic. Interview questions elicited views on key factors regarding care decisions and care transitions for acutely unwell residential aged care facility residents. Thematic analysis was undertaken to identify themes and sub-themes from interviews. Results Analysis of interviews identified five overarching themes affecting ARRT utilisation in the care of acutely unwell residents: (1) resident care needs; (2) family factors; (3) enabling factors; (4) barriers; and (5) adaptability and responsiveness to the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusion Various factors impact on hospital avoidance program utilisation in the care of acutely unwell older aged care facility residents. This information provides additional context to existing quantitative evaluations of hospital avoidance programs, as well as informing the design of future hospital avoidance programs.

The General Practice and Residential Aged Care Facility Concordance of Medication (GRACEMED) study

2020 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 104264
Author(s):  
Meredith Makeham ◽  
Lisa Pont ◽  
Carlijn Verdult ◽  
Rae-Anne Hardie ◽  
Magdalena Z. Raban ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Residential Aged Care ◽  
Aged Care Facility ◽  
Residential Aged Care Facility

scholarly journals Epidemiological and Genomic analysis of a Sydney Hospital COVID-19 Outbreak

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Tennant ◽  
Melanie Figtree ◽  
Jo Tallon ◽  
Rowena A Bull ◽  
Malinna Yeang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Genomic Analysis ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Aged Care Facility ◽  
Outbreak Management ◽  
Hospital Outbreak ◽  
Hospitalised Patients

AbstractAustralia’s early COVID-19 experience involved clusters in northern Sydney, including hospital and aged-care facility (ACF) outbreaks. We explore transmission dynamics, drivers and outcomes of a metropolitan hospital COVID-19 outbreak that occurred in the context of established local community transmission. A retrospective cohort analysis is presented, with integration of viral genome sequencing, clinical and epidemiological data. We demonstrate using genomic epidemiology that the hospital outbreak (n=23) was linked to a concurrent outbreak at a local aged care facility, but was phylogenetically distinct from other community clusters. Thirty day survival was 50% for hospitalised patients (an elderly cohort with significant comorbidities) and 100% for staff. Staff who acquired infection were unable to attend work for a median of 26.5 days (range 14-191); an additional 140 staff were furloughed for quarantine. Transmission from index cases showed a wide dispersion (mean 3.5 persons infected for every patient case and 0.6 persons infected for every staff case). One patient, who received regular nebulised medication prior to their diagnosis being known, acted as an apparent superspreader. No secondary transmissions occurred from isolated cases or contacts who were quarantined prior to becoming infectious. This analysis elaborates the wide-ranging impacts on patients and staff of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission and highlights the utility of genomic analysis as an adjunct to traditional epidemiological investigations. Delayed case recognition resulted in nosocomial transmission but once recognised, prompt action by the outbreak management team and isolation with contact and droplet (without airborne) precautions were sufficient to prevent transmission within this cohort. Our findings support current PPE recommendations in Australia but demonstrate the risk of administering nebulised medications when COVID-19 is circulating locally.

scholarly journals Education and process change to improve skin health in a residential aged care facility

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1140-1147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Price ◽  
Kate J Kennedy ◽  
Tabatha L Rando ◽  
Anthony R Dyer ◽  
Jo Boylan
Keyword(s):  
Care Facility ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Residential Aged Care ◽  
Process Change ◽  
Aged Care Facility ◽  
Residential Aged Care Facility
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