A first-of-its-kind study surveying residents, family members, frontline staff, policy makers and peak bodies, and researchers has identified worker retention, palliative care, and behaviour support for dementia as the preferred target areas of future research.
Lead investigator Dr Katrina Long from the National Centre for Healthy Ageing and Monash University presented the results of the study at the Australian Association of Gerontology conference in Hobart last Wednesday.
The findings show researchers and government where best to put their efforts, she said.
“We were the first survey in the world that has tried to get information from everyone involved in residential aged care to see what the research prior priorities are for them,” Dr Long told Australian Ageing Agenda after her presentation.
The researchers also identified the top three priorities for each of the stakeholder groups.
“The residents themselves really cared about workforce,” Dr Long said. “For our staff, it was all about quality care.”
In this video, Dr Long discusses the common priorities identified as well as the top priorities found for each stakeholder group:
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