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The Bolton Clarke Research Institute is our own research and innovation hub.
It has forged a national and international reputation for high impact community health and aged care research.
Our Research Institute identifies practical solutions to enable greater independence, quality of life and choice about healthcare options for our customers and the wider community.
Our four key principles place people at the centre of our approach:
Ultimately, our research aims to support our clients' ability to lead fuller and more satisfying lives with support from Bolton Clarke at home support, residential aged care and retirement living services.
Our research projects concentrate on four key areas that underpine healthy ageing.
Optimising health and wellbeing
Combatting loneliness and isolation
Addressing post-traumatic mental health
Evaluating the implementation of assistive technology
The Bolton Clarke Research Institute comprises a multi-disciplinary team of research fellows and officers, and is underpinned by a strong governance framework including an ethics committee.
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The BCRI is currnetly conducting a range of research projects and initiatives:
Barriers and enablers to delivering optimal dementia care: Perceptions of community nurses
Being Your Best: An innovative approach to frailty and care transitions
Challenges and opportunities for the multicultural aged care workforce
EACH: Epidemiological analysis of community and Aged Care Health data
Enabling Choices: Enabling wellbeing by providing choices for people with dementia and memory loss
Evaluating Enhanced Palliative Care
Foot health service linkage for people experiencing homelessness
HOW-R-U?: Telephone Peer Support for Isolated Individuals in the Community
Peer support for Older WomEn to pRomote wellbeing and independence (POWER)
Redesigning Texture Modified Foods to Bring Back the Joy of Eating
WEAVE: Weaving Evidence into Action for Veterans with dementia
Research projects recently completed by the Institute include:
Consumer Directed Care and Workforce Retention
Falls Prevention for people with diabetes
Focus on Wellness and Reablement in At-Home Support
Health and wellbeing survey in retirement living
Keeping feet healthy with diabetes
Narrow Band imaging to predict the likelihood of healing venous leg ulcers
National advance care directive prevalence study
Non-pharmacological interventions for people with dementia
Older Women Living Alone (OWLA): Understanding and optimising wellbeing and aged care services
OPTIMISES – Older people living with Type 2 diabetes
Redesigning texture modified foods to bring back the joy of eating
Understanding older veterans in the community: Addressing post-traumatic mental health
Timely Enhanced Access to Medication Management (TEAMM): Pharmacist workforce model trial
Veteran Family Mental Wellbeing Series
Please complete the following documents for the submission of your application to the Bolton Clarke Human Research Ethics Committee
Please see additional documents for examples of plain English and complaints procedure