A5041692125- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Ethics in medical practice
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Flinders University
2016-2025
Centre for Remote Health
2023
Flinders Medical Centre
2021-2022
National Council for Palliative Care
2022
Central Coast Local Health District
2019-2020
Okinawa Prefectural College of Nursing
2008-2019
RMIT University
2015
Repatriation General Hospital
2006-2013
Novita
2010
Harvard University Press
1993
The goal of the study was to examine volume selected brain regions in a group mildly impaired patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Five were for analysis, all which have been reported show substantial change majority AD at some time course disease.Case-control experimenter "blinded."Hospital-based magnetic resonance imaging center.Fifteen subjects, eight diagnosis probable dementia Alzheimer type made concordance National Institute Neurological and Communicative Diseases...
Introduction Telehealth approaches to health care delivery can potentially improve quality of and clinical outcomes, reduce mortality hospital utilisation, complement conventional treatments. However, substantial research into the potential for integrating telehealth within in Australia, particularly provision services relevant older people, including palliative care, aged rehabilitation, is lacking. Furthermore, date, no discrete choice experiment (DCE) studies internationally have sought...
Telehealth is being used increasingly in providing care to patients the community setting. enhanced service delivery could offer new ways of managing load and prioritisation for palliative living community. The study assesses feasibility a telehealth-based model provision based patients, carers clinicians. This was prospective cohort intervention specialist Southern Adelaide, South Australia. Participants were 43 enrolled Adelaide Palliative Service. To be eligible needed over 18 years have...
Purpose To objectively quantify the literature and clinical trial basis for palliative hospice practice given a perception that its evidence base is not well developed. Methods Using Ovid Medline, study looked at cumulative absolute numbers of articles in general medical care literature. The same comparisons were made exploring trials from 1902 to 2005. Data collated five year groups 1970 onward using highly specific search phrase. Results proportion all Medline publications relating rose...
Background: Telehealth technologies are an emerging resource opening up the possibility of greater support if they have utility for patients, carers and clinicians. They may also help to meet health systems’ imperatives improved service delivery within current budgets. Clinicians’ experiences attitudes play a key role in implementation any innovation delivery. Aim: To explore clinicians’ perspectives on utilisation pilot telehealth model its integration into specialist community palliative...
Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many areas of life, including culturally accepted practices at end-of-life care, funeral rites, and access to social, community, professional support. This survey investigated the mental health outcomes Australians bereaved during this time determine how these factors might have impacted bereavement outcomes. Methods An online indexing experiences, levels grief, depression, anxiety, health, work, social impairment. Latent class analysis...
Objective: This study aimed to explore self-care understanding and behaviours among aged-care workers in Australia. It was conducted as part of a project co-produce resource for the Australian workforce. Methods: Semi-structured interviews with eleven staff focus group four at an facility were undertaken understand how practice death dying affect workers. Thematic analysis performed using software generate data coding tree. Results: Aged-care view taking care oneself being way manage...
Palliative care needs rounds have been introduced to improve palliative and end-of-life in residential aged homes. As part of the Australian Government initiative 'Comprehensive Care Aged Measure', trialled seven metropolitan fifteen regional/rural homes South Australia. This qualitative study examined stakeholders' perspectives about potential values factors that facilitate or hinder implementation sustainability rounds. A approach was employed by using individual interviews focus groups....
Advances in medicine have helped many to live longer lives and be able meet health challenges. However death rates are anticipated increase given the ageing population chronic disease progression. Being talk about is seen important normalising as part of life supporting preparedness for death. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provide opportunities community engage collaborative learning. A 5 week MOOC was developed covering four main topics (language humour, representations death,...
Background: Understanding current patterns of functional decline will inform patient care and has health service resource implications. Aim: This prospective consecutive cohort study aims to map the shape trajectories at end life by diagnosis. Design: Changes in status were measured using Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Status Scale. Segmented regression was used identify time points prior death associated with significant changes slope for each diagnostic cohort. Sensitivity...
Abstract Background While the need for digital health capability and technological innovation in palliative care services is growing rapidly, relatively little known about current uptake views of individual practitioners. This study aims to explore practitioners’ use perspectives on care. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional survey with a web-based questionnaire was used. Participants were multidisciplinary practitioners Australia. Results Surveys returned by 170 medical, nursing, allied...
'Death Doulas' have emerged as a relatively new role supporting dying people and their family members; however there is lack of clarity around how the enacted, death doula within health social care systems. This study aimed to explore ambiguity doulas in end-of-life including skills, training experience doulas; communicated community; relationships palliative providers other professionals. People identifying were invited participate an online survey between April June 2018. Ethical approval...
Abstract Background Searching for topics within large biomedical databases can be challenging, especially when are complex, diffuse, emerging or lack definitional clarity. Experimentally derived topic search filters offer a reliable solution to effective retrieval; however, their number and range of subject foci remain unknown. Objectives This systematic scoping review aims identify describe available experimentally developed filters. Methods Reports on filter development (1990‐) were sought...
Background: Although the unit of care in palliative is defined as patient and their family, there are few rigorous studies on how to improve support for family friends they take role caregiver someone at end life. Aim: Separate evaluation care, this pilot study aimed define feasibility possible outcome measures evaluate routine assessments supports specifically caregivers. Design: In a quasi-experimental design, two communities were included: one received standard specialist additionally was...