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Feasibility of Routine Quality-of-Life Measurement in Residential Aged Care: Results from a Pilot Study in Australia Open

Lidia Engel, Nancy Devlin, Briony Dow, Andrew Simon Gilbert, Brendan Mulhern , et al. · 2025

While it is feasible to routinely collect quality-of-life data in residential aged care, addressing the barriers identified will optimise the efficiency of the process and maximise the use of data to guide quality improvement strategies.

IDC-IMPROVE: protocol for a cluster randomised feasibility trial of a care bundle to improve indwelling catheter care (IDC) in residential aged care homes in Australia Open

Joan Ostaszkiewicz, Andrew Simon Gilbert, Chan Yen Tay, Elizabeth Watt, Danika Barry , et al. · 2025

Validity of the EQ-5D-5L for Routine Assessment in Residential Aged Care: Results From a Feasibility Study Open

Lidia Engel, Yared Belete Belay, Tessa Peasgood, Nancy Devlin, Rosalie Viney , et al. · 2025

The EQ-5D-5L showed promising performance and could serve as a potential candidate for implementation in residential aged care. Although this study also provided additional evidence for the EQ-HWB(-S), QoL-ACC, and ASCOT, further validatio…

Interpreter Communication Quality in Cognitive Assessments for Dementia Open

Bianca Brijnath, Simona Markusevska, Joanne Enticott, Parneet Sethi, Andrew Simon Gilbert , et al. · 2025

Importance With increasing dementia prevalence due to population aging, interpreters are needed to facilitate timely dementia diagnosis by supporting the complex verbal and nonverbal interplay between clinicians and patients during cogniti…

Routine Quality-of-Life Measurement in Residential Aged Care: Staff, Resident, and Family Perspectives Open

Andrew Simon Gilbert, Frances Batchelor, Nancy Devlin, Briony Dow, Brendan Mulhern , et al. · 2025

Improving interpreting for dementia assessments: Results from the MINDSET trial Open

Bianca Brijnath, Marina Cavuoto, Simona Markusevska, Andrew Simon Gilbert, Josefine Antoniades , et al. · 2024

Background The Improving Interpreting for Dementia Assessments (MINDSET) study aimed to upskill interpreters through an online co‐designed course in dementia and cognitive assessments. Methods A single‐blinded randomized controlled digital…

Codesigning Training for Health Providers to Improve Detection and Response to Elder Abuse Open

Bianca Brijnath, Marina Cavuoto, Peter Feldman, Briony Dow, Josefine Antoniades , et al. · 2024

Background and Objectives Screening for elder abuse can improve detection, but many health providers lack the necessary skills and confidence. To address this, training for health providers on elder abuse screening was codesigned as part o…

Appropriateness of the EQ-HWB for Use in Residential Aged Care: A Proxy Perspective Open

Lidia Engel, Cate Bailey, Ekaterina Bogatyreva, Frances Batchelor, Nancy Devlin , et al. · 2024

The impact of elder abuse training on subacute health providers and older adults: study protocol for a randomized control trial Open

Marina Cavuoto, Simona Markusevska, Catriona Stevens, Patricia Reyes, G. Renshaw , et al. · 2024

The impact of elder abuse training on subacute health providers and older adults: Study protocol for a randomized control trial Open

Marina Cavuoto, Simona Markusevska, Catriona Stevens, Patricia Reyes, G. Renshaw , et al. · 2024

Introduction: Elder abuse often goes unreported and undetected. Older people may be ashamed, fearful or otherwise reticent to disclose abuse; and many health providers are not confident in asking about it. In the No More Shame study, we wi…

The ENJOY Seniors Exercise Park IMP-ACT project: IMProving older people’s health through physical ACTivity: a hybrid II implementation design study protocol Open

Pazit Levinger, Marcia Fearn, Bronwyn Dreher, Adrian Bauman, Natasha K. Brusco , et al. · 2024

Introduction The health benefits of physical activity are well established; however, most older people are not sufficiently physically active. Despite the availability of various physical activity interventions and programs, implementation…

The third age interrupted: experiences of living in a retirement village during the first year of COVID-19 in Victoria, Australia Open

Andrew Simon Gilbert, Stephanie Garratt, Joan Ostaszkiewicz, Frances Batchelor, Bianca Brijnath , et al. · 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia has profoundly affected older adults, particularly in the state of Victoria, which experienced strict lockdown restrictions six times since the pandemic began in 2020; totalling 245 days over three years.…

Face Validity of Four Preference-Weighted Quality-of-Life Measures in Residential Aged Care: A Think-Aloud Study Open

Lidia Engel, Leona Kosowicz, Ekaterina Bogatyreva, Frances Batchelor, Nancy Devlin , et al. · 2023

“Keeping our distance”: Older adults' experiences during year one of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Australia Open

Andrew Simon Gilbert, Stephanie Garratt, Bianca Brijnath, Joan Ostaszkiewicz, Frances Batchelor , et al. · 2023

The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on everyday life in Australia despite relatively low infection rates. Lockdown restrictions were among the harshest in the world, while older adults were portrayed as especially…

Improving the lives of ethnically diverse family carers and people living with dementia using digital media resources – Protocol for the Draw-Care randomised controlled trial Open

Antonia Thodis, Thu Ha Dang, Josefine Antoniades, Andrew Simon Gilbert, Tuan Anh Nguyen , et al. · 2023

Objectives Ethnically diverse family carers of people living with dementia (hereafter carers and people with dementia) experience more psychological distress than other carers. To reduce this inequality, culturally adapted, multilingual, e…

The experience of structural burden for culturally and linguistically diverse family carers of people living with dementia in Australia Open

Andrew Simon Gilbert, Josefine Antoniades, Samantha Croy, Antonia Thodis, Jon Adams , et al. · 2022

Evidence suggests that family carers of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people living with dementia experience higher stress and unmet need than the general Australian population. These disparities are often framed as the resu…

The impact of training on communication quality during interpreter‐mediated cognitive assessments: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial Open

Bianca Brijnath, Erika González, Jim Hlavač, Joanne Enticott, Robyn Woodward‐Kron , et al. · 2022

Introduction The number of Australian residents with dementia is projected to double by 2058, with 28% currently being migrants from non‐Anglophone countries. There will be growing demand for professional interpreters for cognitive assessm…

Models of Integrated Care, Health and Housing: Report prepared for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety Open

Andrew Simon Gilbert, Ebenezer Owusu‐Addo, Peter Feldman, Paulene Mackell, Stephanie Garratt , et al. · 2021

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Aesthetics of Form as Social Philosophy: Re-reading Lukács. Introduction to the Issue Open

Andrew Simon Gilbert, Christine Magerski · 2020

Models of integrated care, health and housing Open

Andrew Simon Gilbert, Ebenezer Owusu‐Addo, Peter Feldman, Paulene Mackell, Stephanie Garratt · 2020

Young Georg Lukács as a Crisis Thinker. Subjectivism and the Problem of Form Open

Andrew Simon Gilbert · 2020

This paper argues that the work of the young Lukács can be read as a wide-ranging mediation on what I am labelling ›the crisis of subjectivism‹. Reading Lukács this way allows us to see important continuities between his pre-Marxist and Ma…

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