Australia & New Zealand
Newsletter
Issue 9 -
September 2011
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'Talking
the same language
for effective care for
older people'
interRAI Australia
Coordinating Centre
Telephone: +61(7)-3176
5530
Facsimile: +61(7)-3176 6945
Email:
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interRAI
New Zealand
Coordinating Centre
Email:
olderpeople@moh.govt.nz
Editor
Len Gray
Please send feedback to:
Joanna
Kho
interRAI activities continue apace in our region.
I am aware of major implementations of the interRAI Long Term
Care Facility in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
The interRAI Acute Care is now available for use in all public
hospitals in Queensland.
Several new start ups using the interRAI Home Care are at hand.
In the next few months, expect to see interesting – maybe even exciting
– results from a raft of studies related to use of the interRAI hospital
“mini-suite” – the interRAI ED screener, the interRAI AC, the Post Acute
supplement, and the interRAI Home Care in the Australian Transition Care
program. The next edition
of the newsletter will provide some of these results.
Len Gray
Editor
Headlines
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Dutch study demonstrates potential of the interRAI LTCF
In a paper published in the Canadian Medical
Association Journal on June 27, Dutch researchers demonstrated that a
multi-disciplinary intervention centred on the interRAI Long Term Care
Facility assessment system improved the quality of care of residents of
Dutch residential aged care facilities.
The study employed a cluster randomised controlled design
involving 10 facilities and 340 residents, ensuring that the results are
robust and convincing.
See
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2011/06/27/cmaj.101498
for the full report.
This study provides further evidence that a
systematic approach to assessment and care planning provides important
benefits for older people in institutional settings, echoing the results
of an earlier study using the interRAI home care system conducted by
Bernabei and colleagues (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC28532/).
The interRAI LTCF – a key component of the new
interRAI Suite – is now being deployed in many countries around the
world, including Australia, Belgium, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore and
Spain, adding to the widespread use of the earlier version RAI MDS 2.0.
In the next few years, many of these earlier adopters are
expected to upgrade to the LTCF.
Share interRAI content in a new way: interRAI ebook widgets
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Since its launch in April, the interRAI
ebook catalog has come a long way. 18 titles are now available
for sale, and we are receiving new purchases almost daily from
around the world. Because interRAI relies on its Fellows to
get the word out, we have created unique, interactive “read
inside” widgets for each of the interRAI ebooks that you can
email, share through social media, or embed in your website
using a simple cut and paste option. These widgets allow users
to read through a sample of the book’s content, and are easily
shared through email, Facebook, and other social media. There are several ways to share an ebook
from within the widget. You can find a widget for any given
title by searching for that title on the interRAI print catalog,
and viewing its detail page:
click here for an example.
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Along the bottom of the widget, there are
three buttons: E-mail to Friend, Share This, and Buy. E-mail to Friend: by clicking this button,
you can share via email a preview of interRAI ebooks. Share This: by clicking this button, you
are given the option to share the interRAI ebook through
numerous social media outlets, including Facebook, MySpace,
Amazon, and Shelfari (to name a few). You can also embed the widget directly into
your website, allowing your site visitors to preview interRAI
content directly on your site. To do this: •
Click the “Share This” button in the widget. Below the
icons for the various social networking websites, a hotlink
appears: “Get Widget Code.” •
Once you click this link, you are prompted to select the
size (dimensions) of the widget. Clicking the “Copy the Code”
button automatically copies it to your clipboard, so you can
paste it directly into your site’s code. Share an interRAI ebook widget today, and
help get the word out!
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interRAI recently concluded an agreement with Uniquest – the commercial
arm of the University of Queensland, Australia – that will, in turn,
facilitate a major implementation of the interRAI Acute Care system
across all public hospitals in the state of Queensland. Until
June, the interRAI AC was in use in 3 public hospitals in the state, but
this agreement will see its availability extended to up to 100
hospitals. At the time of writing, several new implementations
were immediately underway, with many more anticipated during 2011.
In Queensland, the AC is used primarily to support geriatric
consultation, with nurse assessors preparing cases, which are
subsequently reviewed and reported by geriatricians.
No updates to report
No updates to report
Elliott, Timothy R.,
Phillips, Charles D., Patnaik, Ashweeta, Naiser, Emily, Booth, Eric A.,
Fournier, Constance J., Miller, Thomas R., Moudouni, Darcy M., Hawes,
Catherine, and Dyer, James A. Medicaid Personal Care Services and
Caregivers' Reports of Children's Health: The Dynamics of a
Relationship, HSR 2011. (published online).
Phillips, Charles D. and
Patnaik, Ashweeta and Dyer, James A. and Naiser, Emily and Hawes,
Catherine and Fournier, Constance J. and Elliott, Timothy R. (published
online) Reliability and the measurement of activity limitations (ADLs)
for children with special health care needs (CSHCN) living in the
community, Disability and Rehabilitation 2011.
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