Parent Initiated Response To Escalate Care Of The Deteriorating Child: The PARTNER Project
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$176,410.00
Summary
Successful management of the deteriorating patient hinges on rapid identification and reporting, yet the deteriorating patient is often not recognised or responded to in a timely way. A key feature of rapid response systems is to bypass the traditional hospital hierarchy and includes involvement of families. This is particularly relevant in the paediatric setting where we will develop an evidence-informed process for parent initiation of escalating care of the deteriorating hospitalised child.
Best Practice For The Communication Of Perinatal Booster Recommendations And Optimisation Of The Cocooning Strategy.
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$111,630.00
Summary
Whooping cough continues to be common in Australia. Young babies, who have little or no protection to the infection, are often hospitalised and can die. Adults generally experience milder symptoms which often go undiagnosed and can pass on whooping cough to babies, particularly within the home. To reduce this risk by 70%, parents can receive a booster vaccination for whooping cough. Offering this on the postnatal ward will help remove barriers and provide a cocoon of protection for the newborn.
Service Pathways For Ageing Caregivers Of Adults With Intellectual Disability
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$143,613.00
Summary
Caregiving is demanding, but for most it is but a phase of life. This is not so for the 90,000 Australian parents caring for a lifetime for their adult son or daughter with intellectual disability. They are at significant risk from the physical and emotional consequences of long-term caring and the compounding effects of their own - and their son or daughter's - ageing. Despite this, these ageing parent caregivers typically do not use health and community services until a crisis occurs. Our goal ....Caregiving is demanding, but for most it is but a phase of life. This is not so for the 90,000 Australian parents caring for a lifetime for their adult son or daughter with intellectual disability. They are at significant risk from the physical and emotional consequences of long-term caring and the compounding effects of their own - and their son or daughter's - ageing. Despite this, these ageing parent caregivers typically do not use health and community services until a crisis occurs. Our goal is to ensure that ageing parent caregivers use health and community services appropriately and for these services to be appropriate to their needs. The proposed project therefore aims to identify the pathways that lead to or prevent ageing parent caregivers accessing services and to construct a model for ageing parent caregivers' involvement with services that could be tested with a randomised clinical trial. Narrative life history method will be used to determine how ageing parent caregivers arrived in their present circumstances and factors which influence the caring relationship, its stresses and rewards, and their experiences and views concerning services. Service providers will participate in focus groups to examine their perceptions and expectations of services for ageing parent caregivers. Characteristics of the study sample will be compared with state and national population benchmarks. The findings will inform our planned development of a multi-dimensional strategy to provide cost effective preventive health and community services for this largely neglected subgroup within the population of caregivers in Australia.Read moreRead less