Research Team: Quality of Life Quality of Care

"the Care Environment" research theme

care_environment

Professional practice and care settings for older people.

Projects by academic team members
Projects by postgraduate students

Projects

 "the Care Environment" projects       

 Selected publications

 

Dementia care at the end of life         

 

current project

Ageing in different residential environments       

 Russell, C. and V. Sauran, 1991, Resident evaluation of a      home-like hostel environment; a study of autonomy among frail older people.  Lincoln Papers in Gerontology 11, Melbourne: La Trobe University.

Russell, C. and V. Sauran, 1995, Challenging Assumptions about Residential Care:  Frail Older People in Two Contrasting Environments. Lincoln Papers in Gerontology, No. 31. Melbourne: La Trobe University.

"the Care Environment" postgraduate projects
   

Evidence based practice in nursing in Taiwan

 

Hui Chen Chang

Understanding the Nursing Home Care Processor: An Ethnographic Study

 

Hui-Wen Chien

Professionalism in Palliative Care: An Exploratory Investigation of Nursing Practice in Residential Aged Care Facilities

 

Jung-Ying Tan

What is at play in what nurses say about the built environment?

 

Nikola Lika

Beyond Depression: frail older people talk about limited quality of life and resilience

 

Taylor Dong

Deconstructing the triadic relationship between the elderly residents, family caregivers and health workers in long-term residential care in Hong Kong.

 

Betty Chung

Rehabilitation

 

Daryn Poulden

Meanings of home among young adults living in nursing homes

 

Patricia Dickinson