The influence of the built environment in enacting a household model of residential aged care for people living with a mental health condition: A qualitative post-occupancy evaluation.

This study undertakes a spatial analysis of an Australian aged care setting where residents receive person-centred support in a specially-designed home-like environment. Focus groups were conducted with staff to explore the impact of the built environment in a new residential aged care setting that has implemented a Household Model of care for people living with mental health conditions. Drawing on Actor-Network Theory and proxemics, we mapped how the built environment supports improved behaviours and care practices in four areas: food preparation and dining, sleep and self-care, site layout, and relationships.

At the grassroots of home and community-based aged care: strategies for successful consumer engagement.

Objectives: (1) To describe the processes used to plan and conduct a stakeholder forum in aged care as a means of informing future uptake of consumer participatory research. (2) To discuss how capturing and drawing on stakeholders' experiences of aged care can generate new research ideas and inform the delivery of more person-centred aged care services.

Key Principles Of Consumer Engagement: A stakeholder forum was conducted as part of Ageing Well, a 2-year project evaluating the value and impact of social participation and quality of life tools as part of routine community aged care assessments at a large Australian provider.

The co-design of timely and meaningful information needed to enhance social participation in community aged care services: Think tank proceedings.

Objective: To determine what information from community aged care social participation and quality of life assessments needs to be captured, and meaningfully utilised as part of an integrated information and communication technology system.

Methods: Two think tank sessions comprised of community aged care staff and researchers (n = 9) were conducted over 5 weeks. The sessions were guided by the Continuous Quality Improvement framework.

Measuring consumer preference for models of diabetes care delivered by pharmacists.

Unlabelled: Evaluation of a community pharmacy disease management program for type 2 diabetes, 'SugarCare', was conducted. Compared with the standard care offered by pharmacists, this enhanced program offered patients closer monitoring of blood glucose levels, counselling about lifestyle, etc. The SugarCare study was funded by a grant but if the care is to continue some other method of financing must be found.

Social networks and mental health among a farming population.

Aims: The study investigated the associations between mental health and measures of community support, social support networks, sense of place, adversity, and perceived problems in a rural Australian population. There was a specific focus on farming communities due to previous qualitative research by the authors indicating distress by farmers in response to drought (Sartore et al. Aust Fam Phys 36(12), 990-993, 2007).

Learning, Enjoying, Growing, Support model: an innovative collaborative approach to the prevention of conduct disorder in preschoolers in hard to reach rural families.

Objective: To develop, implement and evaluate a pilot program targeting rural families with preschool aged children at risk of conduct disorder.

Design: A prospective single group repeated measures design.

Setting: Communities in four local government areas in the Mid Western Area Health Service, New South Wales.

Implementation and evaluation of Australian pharmacists' diabetes care services.

Objective: To implement and evaluate a specialized service for type 2 diabetes mellitus in the community pharmacy.

Design: Parallel group, multisite, control versus intervention, repeated measures design, with three different regions in New South Wales, Australia, used as intervention regions, then matched with control regions as much as possible.

Intervention: Following training, pharmacists followed a clinical protocol over 9 months, with approximately monthly intervention site visits during which blood glucose readings were downloaded and discussed with the patient, interventions were documented, and goals set with each patient.

Rural community pharmacy: a feasible site for a health promotion and screening service for cardiovascular risk factors.

A pharmacist-delivered health promotion and screening service for cardiovascular risk factors in rural community pharmacy was implemented in the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales (NSW). We describe the development of the service and profile 204 participants at their initial screening. A standardised clinical protocol guided the pharmacist through delivery of the service.