Investigating changes in quality of life and function along the lifespan for people with spinal cord injury.

Objective: To track changes in quality of life and function for people with spinal cord injury (SCI) along the lifespan.

Design: A wave panel design in which data were collected annually over 5 years across 6 strata that represented different periods since injury.

Setting: Telephone interviews with participants in their home environment.

Evaluating new roles for the support workforce in community rehabilitation settings in Queensland.

Introduction: Alternative workforce models need to be explored to adequately meet the future health care needs of the Australian population. A new role for the support workforce, to optimise their contribution in community rehabilitation in Queensland--the advanced community rehabilitation assistant (ACRA)--was developed on the basis of service activity mapping and gap analysis.

Objectives: Evaluation of a trial of the new ACRA role at six pilot sites in Queensland.